Re: [Fwd: What if Dr. Seuss wrote technical manuals]

Subject: Re: [Fwd: What if Dr. Seuss wrote technical manuals]
From: "Wing, Michael J" <mjwing -at- INGR -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 07:36:53 -0500

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Dear:
[ X ] Clueless Newbie
[ ] Troller
[ ] "Me too"-er
[ ] Spammer
[ ] Racist
[ ] Expert on everything (EOE)
[ ] Flame Thrower
[ ] News Groupie

You Are Being Flamed Because:
[ ] You started a long, stupid thread
[ ] You continued spreading a long stupid thread
[ ] You started a grammar thread
[ ] You started a Word vs. Framemaker thread
[ ] You started a thread that has been discussed here
continuously for the last year and a half (i.e.
certification, one space vs. two spaces, trademarks)
[ ] You responded to a "dead horse" thread
[ X] You posted the Dr. Seuss as a Technical Writer drivel
[ ] Your post/response contains too much rhetoric and hyperbole
and very little (if any) substance
[ ] Your post is absurdly off topic for where you posted it
[ ] You obviously don't know anything about the topic at hand
[ ] You posted a "test" in a discussion group rather than
in alt.test
[ ] You posted a blatently obvious troll
[ ] You followed up to a blatently obvious troll
[ ] You said "X rules, Y stinks" and gave no support for your
lame statement
[ ] You said "me too" to something and added NOTHING to the
discussion
[ ] You make no sense
[ ] Your margin settings (or lack of) make your post unreadable
[ ] You posted a 2 line reply with PAGES of unnecessary quoted
text
[ ] You are trying to make money on a non-commercial newsgroup

To Repent, You Must:
[ ] Refrain from posting until you have a vague idea what you're
doing
[ ] READ every post in this group for two weeks so you can some
idea about what is discussed here
[ ] READ every post about the subject available in the archives
(http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/archives.htm) three times
[ ] Give up your AOL account
[ ] Give up your webTV account
[X ] Read the posting rules 50 times a day for a month
[ ] Bust up your modem with a hammer and eat it
[ ] Jump into a bathtub while holding your monitor (monitor must
be plugged in)
[ ] Actually post something relevant
[X ] Be the guest of honor in alt.flame for a month
[ ] Nothing, we'll let you go this time


In Closing, I'd Like to Say:
[ ] Get a clue
[ ] Get a life
[ ] Go away
[ ] Grow up
[X ] Never post again
[ ] You need to seek psychiatric help
[ ] Take your gibberish somewhere else
[ ] Go back to school and actually learn something
[ ] Learn how to post or get off the usenet
[ ] Don't take offense at this, I just like to use this form
[ ] All of the above

Mike

Michael Wing (mailto:mjwing -at- ingr -dot- com)
Staff Writer/ Web Applications Developer
Intergraph Corporation; Huntsville, Alabama
http://maps.intergraph.com

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