Today's Topics:
Perils of non-chary de-subscription
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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 12:50:32 -0500
From: Michael L Turyn <mturyn@world.std.com>
Message-Id: <199311251750.AA10923@world.std.com>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
I think pointers are a better idea; are there people on this list who
cannot ftp stuff over? If so, is it hard to get things on an individual
basis?
As far as "paying for slack": Of course you can pay for Slack. You just won't
get any. For that matter, you won't get Slack by subbing to this list, or
by reading or posting. Most of the things you buy are substitutes for Slack,
and poor substitutes at that (much as dirty magazines are poor substitutes for
sex, even with the little staples removed---or, for that matter, as McGlop is
a poor substitute for food, or YOUR job is a poor substitute for satisfying
work, don't try to look away from the screen YOU SINNER YOU).
Since what you need is Slack, and what you get is (at best) a life-time full
of pleasure, good works, and mature interpersonal relationships that like
you "as a friend" and a couple of better ones, your life has become one after
another of BAD DEALS and Slack-loess outcomes. And then, and then, and then...
And then along comes "Bob". Tall thin "Bob". Slow-smoking "Bob"; slow-"joking"
Blob. He gives you what you pay for, even if it wasn't what you thought it
was what you were paying for, even if you had no idea what you were paying
for it WITH. Yes, Free Enterprise is a set of non-coerced transactions
between rational actors, but "Bob" coerces you beyond REASON and then GETS
YOU OFF THE STAGE and into PRODUCING, where the money is.
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Message-Id: <m0p2aG1-000ONFC@wetware.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 93 22:32 PST
From: monsieur HAINEUX <bc@wetware.com>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Perils of non-chary de-subscription
DANGER.
There exist some merrye pranksters that pitch a heinous vendetta on
people who send subscription messages to the main mailing list.
If, shortly after you part ways, you find your mailbox fill to
o'erflowing with new mailing lists you can't remember subscribing to
(especially if they are lesbian incest support groups and complete
copies of the MORTIMER story), don't say *I* didn't warn you.
mr hEINOUS
"everything is boring since I ate strawberry cream puff"
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