Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Subject: Apparently-From: sagan@AOL.sol.mwy
Keywords: original, chuckle
Approved: funny-request@clari.net
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 96 19:30:04 EST

Has it occurred to anyone yet that the reason we  haven't  gotten
any replies from Out There may be the same as the reason we don't
often bother flaming AOLers?

  "Oh, _goody_, Yendor---here's another one.  Let's see, it  says
  [*** --> MAKE FRIENDS FAST !!! <-- ***] on the front panel; how
  _original_.  Two nudes on the plaque, scanned in  at  low  res.
  What  do  you  want  to bet they didn't get permission from the
  copyright holder?  Hmm...address in pulsar distances, but  they
  mangled the Reply-To:  line; I don't think `Sol III' is a fully
  qualified domain at all. You would think all these spammers out
  in  Sirius  sector  would  know about the anonymous reposter at
  Fomalhaut by now, anyway...."

  "Well, do we forward it to their sysop?"

  "What's the point?  Look at the header; it's some dinky  yellow
  G2  dwarf.  The sector is lousy with them---if we have Her shut
  it down, they'll find another star before She even has time  to
  clean out the logfiles and reboot."

  "But look at this bandwidth-hogging crap---this audio disk must
  have a couple of hundred incompatible languages on it.  I don't
  think  this one is even the same _species_; it sounds more like
  a whale to me."

  "Well, if they've got whales on-site, maybe  they'll  ask  some
  questions  and eventually get a clue.  In the meantime, I can't
  be bothered; I've got a whole globular cluster  to  upgrade  to
  4.0.2  this  eon.   Besides, in the long run it only encourages
  them.  The sort of pathetic race who starts these chain letters
  craves any kind of attention at all."

[This one is original to me; Yendor and Zontak will be way pissed 
if anyone forwards it along without my name ....]

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