Date: Mon Jun 19 04:52:58 1995
From: Tom Blancato <tblancato-AT-envirolink.org>
Subject: Re: Daydream


Explanation, anoyne?

Alan Sondheim writes:
>
>
>fuck you.
>
>On Mon, 19 Jun 1995, Malgosia Askanas wrote:
>
>> > Most of these sorts of things are in place on Usenet by the way, check 
>> > out alt.noun.adjective.verb.verb.verb (think that's right), alt.warlord 
>> > (ditto), etc. - there is a lot of experimentation - also check out the 
>> > Spam that happened on alt.2600, available maybe still on Marius Watz' 
>> > page and alt.hackers which you have to hack into - I feel very 
>> > differently about email lists which is why I'm not posting here much 
>> > about this -
>> 
>> This is an excellent point.  Let's see: I bet that 
>> alt.noun.adjective.verb.verb.verb does all the stuff that Tom B's 
>> FPSP lists were meant to do, and that the spam on alt.2600 is like a
>> combination of Tom W's memory list with MER's Complexity-L.
>> I want to add that experimentation is also incessantly happening
>> at the Lawrence Livermore Labs, on MTV, and in the Boston subway system,
>> where people are always trying to find foreign coins that will fit
>> into the token slots.  I agree that to experiment with e-mail lists,
>> on top of all this, is a bit much. 
>> 
>> -m 
>> 

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