Subject: Re: your mail

From: "Jessica A. Perich" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 16:39:27 -0500 (EST)

Pine-

	This is Jessica Perich at email: [email-masked]
There is a problem with my emailing. It seems that I have obtained a bug
somewhere in the system. Whenever I send messages to Angela Bitner at
email: [email-masked] the messages get sent back to me from The Mail
Delivery Service from a Mailer-Daemon. Please rid this viru from my system
so that I can successfully email my friend.

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From: Andrew Le <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:52:52 -0800 (PST)

OK... will do...

> so that I can successfully email my friend.

Andrew Le           (425) 271-9410 phone
Casabyte LLC        http://www.casabyte.com
Managing networks under one roof. 
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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 26 Feb 1998 23:05:08 +0100

>> "JAP" == Jessica A Perich <[email-masked]> writes:

JAP> Pine- This is Jessica Perich at email: [email-masked]
JAP> There is a problem with my emailing. It seems that I have
JAP> obtained a bug somewhere in the system. Whenever I send messages
JAP> to Angela Bitner at email: [email-masked] the messages get
JAP> sent back to me from The Mail Delivery Service from a
JAP> Mailer-Daemon. Please rid this viru from my system so that I can
JAP> successfully email my friend.

From: [email-masked] (Mark Moraes)
Subject: Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette
Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers,news.answers

			"Dear Emily Postnews"

	Emily Postnews, foremost authority on proper net behaviour,
	gives her advice on how to act on the net.

============================================================================

Q: Dear Ms. Postnews: I couldn't get mail through to somebody on another
site.  What should I do? -- [email-masked]

A: Dear Eager: No problem, just post your message to a group that a
lot of people read.  Say, "This is for John Smith.  I couldn't get
mail through so I'm posting it.  All others please ignore."

This way tens of thousands of people will spend a few seconds scanning
over and ignoring your article, using up over 16 man-hours their
collective time, but you will be saved the terrible trouble of
checking through Usenet maps or looking for alternate routes.  Just
think, if you couldn't distribute your message to 30,000 other
computers, you might actually have to (gasp) call directory assistance
for 60 cents, or even phone the person.  This can cost as much as a
few DOLLARS (!)  for a 5 minute call!

And certainly it's better to spend 10 to 20 dollars of other people's
money distributing the message then for you to have to waste $9 on an
overnight letter, or even 32 cents on a stamp!

Don't forget.  The world will end if your message doesn't get through,
so post it as many places as you can.

Yo, Mr. Miller!  <a href="news://news.announce.newusers">See you</a>.

Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
Score another place on the universal shit-list, for the morons in Redmond.
(PhlaXioR)