Are you ever wondering if we're abusing USENET too much? Perhaps tighter regulations will have to be imposed in order to accomodate the rapid expansion of this global network? Already Pnews has started the trend with threatening messages and intimidating guilt-ridden tactics... Imagine Pnews in the year 2069 on a standard University account: ug.cs% Pnews Newsgroup(s): rec.humor.funny Your local distribution prefixes are: Local organization: mscs Organization: dal City: hfx Province: ns Multi-State Area: Country: can Continent: na Everywhere: world Distribution (world): world Sorry, posting to "world" domain is reserved for respected politicians and dictators. Being a lowly undergraduate arts student, you will be restricted to posting within your local domain. Title/Subject: joke Sorry, that title is offensive to some. For the sake of political correctness, the title has been changed to a pig-latin derivative. The new title will be : okejay This program posts news to billions of machines throught the entire known and civilized galaxy. Your message will cost the net billions if not trillions of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing. Before you post your article you must pass the following simple USENET test. 1) Roughly how many computers are hooked up to the network that you will now be posting to... approximately 666 314 159 696 969 machines Good! Now, on to the next question! You're a third of the way towards posting your article! 2) To the nearest digit, how many small Third World countries could be saved with the money this article costs? 4 small 3rd world countries, or one Soviet Union. Excellent! You're two thirds there! Now, for the last question: 3) How much time (to the nearest hour) is this article going to waste of for employees, reading this article when they should be working... none (everyone knows USENET isn't a waste of time - it's the most important thing in every computer geek's life) Good! Trick question, but you passed! Now, for a few personal questions... (answers not echoed, for security and confidentiality) 1) Is this article going to make you friends? If so, how many... 2) Is this article going to lose you friends? If so, how many... 3) Have you ever had psychological therapy? 4) Who is your family doctor, and what is his home and work phone number? 5) Have you ever been convicted of a felony? Are you on parole? 6) Are you prepared to face capitol punishment if your article is considered: a) sexist b) pornogoraphic c) bible-thumping d) violent e) suggestive f) intelligent g) stupid h) repetitive or otherwise questionable ? 7) Did you vote for Clinton Jr. Jr. , or Bush Jr. Jr. Jr? (Non American residents need not apply, because we dont' realy give a damn about your political stance) 8) Do you buy anything other than American made products? 9) Is there a possibility that anything in this article could be incorrect? 10) Are you prepared to face the consequences if there is such an item? That will be the end of questions for this article. Please affix note from parent/guardian giving permission to post to Pnews now (type it in, assuring that at least 3 witnesses are present to authenticate procedure) Now, are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny] YES? Perhaps I did not make myself clear. Are you ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, COMPLETELY sure that you want to do this? [ny] And you do realize that by posting to USENET you are signing life over to the devil? [yn] And you also realize that since you will be costing BILLIONS if not TRILLIONS of dollars, and will send several countries into financial disintigration, you will be spit upon by all chilren of the future for many years to come as the sole reason for the fall of the earth? [ny] Are you prepared to meet the wrath of GreenPeace since you so proudly display your ignorance for your environment and planet earth? [ny] In conclusion, I must ask you one more time: You really want to do this? [ny] Alright then... Prepared file to include [none]: Sorry, your article is now too long. Please start again, trimming the headers to conserve space. Perhaps your username is too long. All articles in the future shall be conserved to 8 bytes. No more. This ends your Pnews session. Please come again... ug.cs%
(From the "Rest" of RHF)