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PHil wrote:
   >The best ones are the forwarded messages that threaten you with bad
   >luck if you don't forward to your 10 best friends.  By the time I
   >get one, there are 10,000 emails and subjects to work through to
   >get to the miracle promise. Man, there is nothing like reading
   >through 40 screens of names and email addresses and subject lines
   >before getting to what the message says.
IF you don't get to the point within the first screen after
all the bS that tells me you used microsft bugware version x
yada yada, (usually within the first half) I hit the delete
button and move on.
I used to have a nice text file I sent to friends and
relatives who persisted on sending me this excrement but
never sending a note to say hi or anything similar.  IT
explained that these were all bunk and not to bother me with
them.  IT also explained that the bible is not a luck book
and if the forwarder sends me something which says that I"ll
go to hell for not forwarding the bs then he or she might
just experience some hell up close and personal if I meet
them in a dark place.
GUess I"m old and grouchy, I don't suffer fools or stupidity
gladly anymore.
IN fact the other day when running the maritime mobile
service net I called for emergency traffic.  sOme old geezer
in ORlando wanted a radio check for his mobile installation
and had to give me a three minute monologue to get to the
point.  I said, obviously the transmitter's working but
something about the receiver could use some work, mainly the
human receiver interface.  THen I get another geezer does
basically the same thing when I'm looking for maritime
mobiles only.  Old boy comments that I sound like a drill
sergeant.  I told him that directed net means that one is
expected to follow some directions.
Oops, I forgot, all these echolink only "my rig is a
soundblaster with a crappy microphone I bought at radio
shack" hams don't know any better.  THat's why they do the
lid thing between two sand blaster only stations and tie up
a linked repeater system.

73 de nf5b



Richard WEbb,
Electric SPider Productions,
Eads Tennessee