From kjnoren@hem.passagen.se Mon Jan 29 12:05:47 2001 Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 13:37:20 +0100 From: Karl-Johan Noren Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: TAN: test, ignore [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Christopher Tong wrote: > Karl-Johan Noren wrote: > > Rimrunner wrote: > > > Why send a test post when any interesting post with a > > unique subject line would do? > > Because on this group, people always reply to test posts (albeit in a > rather scathing fashion)? There is that, but there are other ways of getting that. One can, for instance, use subject lines like: Loial is a cross-species paedophiliac! TAN: Kate Newview, are you married? Tylin raped Mat! You are a bunch of baby-killing nazis! [1] TAN: School vouchers rule! TAN: Book recommendations wanted Nynaeve/Elayne/Egwene is a bitch! [latest book] by Martin/Kay/Pterry/Bujold/Brust [insert chapter name] (sex) [2] Novak isn't at all humble! -- Karl-Johan Norén -- kjnoren@hem.passagen.se http://hem.passagen.se/kjnoren/ - To believe people are as stupid as one believes is stupider than one can believe [1] Note to abuse at Utfors: this is a joke. [2] This latter will also give you e-mail responses care of Tor's legal department.