Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 04:23:31 GMT From: Alaric Fox Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: Bomb Threat Bill Garrett wrote in article <2000Apr17.140249@130.62.16.132>... > When I first saw this subject line I thought, "What, someone's making > a bomb threat against rasfwrj? That's worth a chuckle." > > That's one time when propogation delay would really suck. > Some people would get the bomb threat a day or two before the bomb > arrived in their newsfeeds, while others would get the warning after > the explosion. > Don't forget the obvious subthreads that this would create -- discussions over which operating systems handled it best, etc. The person who sent it would then defend itself, saying that only "broken newsreaders" were damaged, and that this was just newsgroup Darwinism in action. Somebody would threaten to call someone's ISP. Someone would blame Concentric for not removing the bomb despite the number of users complaining. At least one MS lackey would say that MS could have had a patch out in time if only the DoJ wasn't squashing Free Enterprise. At least three people would provide grammatical corrections to the threat, and Chucky would probably give him a welcome dance. In other words, it would be business as usual. --Alaric