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> From: andrew.boyd at dfat.gov.au
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au; dd at dandrake.com
> Subject: Re[2]: [RML] Re: SILVER BUDGIE SHOES (SPAM)
> Date: Wednesday, October 01, 1997 4:43 PM
>
>
> No, the only surprising part is that after 18 months and 20
megabytes
> + of text between the foremost bowheads in the world there are still
> people who join and within days are telling us how to run the list.
>
> Like I said before, some people stay, some don't... last time I
> looked there were 130+ people who were staying.
>
> Like I said to the other guy, if you don't like it, leave. Or get a
> filter-capable mail client.
>
> Regards, Andrew
> The other ex-moderaptor...
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [RML] Re: SILVER BUDGIE SHOES (SPAM)
> Author: PC:dd at dandrake.com at INTERNET-MAIL
> Date: 10/2/97 3:29 AM
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> In <3.0.1.32.19971001111225.007b0b00 at macrae.com.au>, on 10/01/97
> at 11:12 AM, Merlin <merlin at macrae.com.au> said:
> >> I've been on the list for three or four days now. Nothing but this
> >>Budgie business. What gives? Do you ever talk about rainbows?
>
> >Wow, that long! really!!!
>
> OK, cool bit of sarcasm. But it really is weird when you subscribe to a
> new list and find NOTHING about the supposed subject, just a whole series
> of weirdly idiosyncratic messages.
>
> Just a statistical glitch, as it turns out; maybe related to exhaustion
> after the RSG convention, which of course was a reason for a bunch of new
> subscriptions to the list. But you really ought not to be surprised when
> people start asking whether they somehow got on the budgies mailing list
> when they thought they were getting rainbows.
>
> --
> Dan Drake
> dd at dandrake.com
> http://www.dandrake.com/index.html
> Give me a place to stand and a strong cup of coffee,
> and I can move the world.
>
>