From avatar-usenet@arkane.demon.co.uk Sun Jan 23 12:48:29 2000 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: "Mr John "Shit Head" Smith From: Alistair J. R. Young Date: 23 Jan 2000 17:48:29 +0000 On 20 Jan 2000 03:13:59 GMT, in message <865uhn$9fl$6@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>, John Rowat praised Shub-Internet thus: > As roses wither, so does Jasper Janssen: >> hatboy@omen.net.au (St. Chucky the Chunderous) wrote: >>> On 12 Jan 2000 05:22:55 GMT, John Rowat >> > Actually, the use of what Alistair dubbed a "slaughterfile", wherein the > posts would not even be available on the server in question, as a way of > having someone "banned" from Usenet. More effective would be what I suppose I'd have to christen a "gigadeathcrimefile", after Banks, which would remove the posts in question from the server and then forge-cancel all copies of them on Usenet [1], crash Outlook Express or Netscape [2], format the poster's hard drive, make their monitor explode, infect them with a hideous, wasting, and ultimately terminal disease, burn their house down, and shoot their dog. But maybe that's just me. Alistair [1] Only this part has so far been implemented; the rest to follow in version 2.0 and following. [2] Well... -- Computational Thaumaturge, Deus Machinarum. -- Cerebrate of the Silicon Swarm. e-mail: avatar-sig@arkane.demon.co.uk WWW: http://www.arkane.demon.co.uk/ "Go not to Usenet for counsel, for they will say both No and Yes and 'Try another newsgroup.'"