TRAIN KEPT A' ROLLIN

[Paul Mather]

On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 DASLUD at AOL.COM wrote:

=>i DO like stirrin shit up in a certain way, ask messrs. heller and
=>anderson...but tossing that out wasnt meant to be more than one more passing
=>bit of craziness.
=>AND I WARNED EVERYONE LOUDLY, DID I NOT? EVERYONE HAD THE OPTION TO NOT WATCH
=>IT.

I did not receive your "gift" :-) to BOC-L, because I've programmed my
mail server software to reject any incoming mail over ~1MB in size.
However, I think it's a trifle disingenuous to say you "warned
everyone loudly" not to view it.  Such vague "warnings" actually seem
to be veiled incitements to view in my experience (at least from
Usenet)---a sort of subliminal "go on, I dare you..."

I'm just speaking for myself, but personally, I'd prefer an AVI
description of a hypothetical "dubious" file to be more along the
lines of "closeup of sharp spike being driven slowly into man's eye
before being crushed by a falling grand piano," than "YOU HAVE BEEN
WARNED."  I think the former lets me know better whether I want to
view the unknown attachment than the latter. :-)

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,

Paul.

NP: Various, _Open Air Burg Herzberg: Wir sind Kinder der Revolte, Vol. 1_

PS: I still have no clue as to what your AVI file was about. :-)