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Re: Posting Etiquette

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From: ez04...
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 05:28
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Taylor,

	This post is really fucked up.  I love it.

				Brian

PS  How's the kids, daddy?  (inside joke *8')


Taylor Gautier (ez00...@othello.ucdavis.edu) wrote:
: Hey, is there at least someone out there that agrees with me on this?

: I think that all (and I know, this is going to be impossible, in fact it 
: is probably an oxymoron and doomed to be infinitely ironic, but so be it)
: all of the posts containing the following subjects should start out with 
: the following standard disclaimer, making it easier for us to create a 
: working kill file.

: I SUCK, blah blah blah

: where blah blah blah stands for any one of the following:

: Help me, I am on Please Daddy, Don't Hurt me, and I can't finish the 
: second level of the first game.

: I've heard of this network thingy, how do I do it?  (duh, y'know like a 
: Novell Network??)

: Gee, DOOM says not enough memory before it even starts.

: Uh, DOOM hangs at <purely random place, probably caused by idiots being 
: allowed to have more powerful computers than they could possibly use>


: DOOM sucks because (some quirk or small thing that in their wildest 
: dreams couldn't even be considered a major feature of any game they could 
: program)

: ----

: I am sure there are many more.  Seriously, all of you go read the FAQ.  
: Make sure you computer is really setup, and doesn't have a shitload of 
: confilicting drivers, tsr's and such.

: Read this group more carefully.  You know the answer to your problem may 
: be just another page of posts away.  I really can't stand one more "What 
: is DOOM?"  Something that generates over several hundred posts weekly 
: can't be that hard to figure out what it is.

: And get a clue.  A Network.  Novell Network.  Over Ethernet, Token Ring 
: or what have you.  That is the only current way to play multiplayer.  

:  
: I've already seen some polite people do this, and it certainly is nice 
: not to have to read those articles beginning with I SUCK.  or how about, 
: I AM LAME.

: -- Taylor Gautier   -- ez00...@hamlet.ucdavis.edu

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