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- POWER POSTING SCHOOL
-
- Are you REALLY SATISFIED with the impact of your USENET postings?
- Do people quail and quiver at the thought of your followups? Is
- your name on the lips of net.fans on seven continents?
-
- Or perhaps you are NOT HAPPY with your posting style. Do people
- ignore you? Perhaps you are disappointed that no one ever posts
- followups to your messages, or that Mark Ethan Smith is more
- famous than you. Perhaps you are bored and like to get lots of
- mail. If so, take heart! Here is a new service for net.wimps!
-
- *** THE POWER POSTING SCHOOL ***
-
- Our world-flamous instructors will turn you into A BEAST OF A
- MAN. Topics will range from pure theory (Monty Python's Argument
- Clinic) to practice (assignments reading and posting in
- alt.flame, soc.singles and other hot-gas newsgroups).
-
- Seminars will focus on patented power-posting techniques:
-
- *** USE OF REPETITION AND CAPITALS. Suppose some clown makes a
- mistake of fact in his posting (e.g., <1309@nmtsun.nmt.edu>, by
- John Shipman):
-
- >> The FORTRAN 77 standard does not prohibit modification
- >> of the iteration variable inside the loop.
-
- Now, some WUSS might try to be polite, and reply
-
- I believe you have missed a critical paragraph in the
- standard (e.g., <162@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> and
- <4026@aw.sei.cmu>).
-
- You'll never get anywhere with this approach. People are so ready
- to hit the `n' key these days; you have to get their attention
- with flashy graphics or they'll ignore you altogether. The proper
- style is: (e.g., <1328@nmtsun.nmt.edu>):
-
- WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG
-
- Politeness is for wimps. If people have been ignoring you, it's
- not because you're a twit, but because you don't SCREAM LOUD
- ENOUGH (the Sam Kinison School).
-
- *** THE SMILEY FACE: YOUR SHIELD AGAINST A CRUEL WORLD. You can
- say anything you want, no matter how insulting, and get away with
- it! All you have to do is obey the proper net.etiquette. Example:
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- This is not a flame, you scumbag, slimeball toad! Your
- parents were mutant intestinal parasites! Your face would
- make a pathologist puke! Vultures and maggots would disdain
- your carcass! Your romantic preference is for pets,
- livestock, organ meats, AIDS sufferers and rejects from Idi
- Amin's harem! :-) (No flames, please)
-
- *** THE GRANDSTAND FINISH. No one will respect you unless your
- .signature file runs for two screens. Special lectures will
- cover:
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- -- Drawing unrecognizable pictures using only ASCII characters
- -- How to come up with at least 35 different return mail paths
- -- Sources for obscure, meaningless, flashy quotations
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- *** CALL TODAY. Are you ORGANISM ENOUGH to be a net.god like Fai
- Lau? Interested applicants please reply by posting in alt.flame.
- Please don't reply by e-mail, as the instructors spend all their
- time reading the net and never get to the e-mail.
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- --
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- John Shipman/Zoological Data Processing/Socorro, New Mexico
- USENET: ihnp4!lanl!unm-la!unmvax!nmtsun!john ``If you can't take
- it, get stronger.'' --Falline Danforth
-