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• Quote #240 I suspect people in non English-speaking | Bill Higgins countries consider English with the same | Fermilab fine sense of frustration and dread that | Interne
  higgins@fnal.fnal.gov AFCers think about Microsoft Windows....
• hread n. [Usenet, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of `topic thread', a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic.
  To `follow a thread' is to read a series of Usenet postings sharing a common subject or (more correctly) which are connected by Reference headers....
• kremvax /krem-vaks/ n. [from the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax] Originally
  a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko....
• Dear Emily: I recently read an article that said, "reply by mail, I'll summarize.
  What should I do? -- Doubtful Dear Doubtful: Post your response to the whole net....
• Higgins: Doolittle, you're either an honest man or a rogue.
  Doolittle: A little of both, Guv'nor. Like the rest of us, a little of both....
• Dear Emily: I'm having a serious disagreement with somebody on the net.
  I tried complaints to his sysadmin, organizing mail campaigns, called for his removal from the net and phoning his employer to get him fired....
• There is no one orthodoxy which is the enemy of democracy. All of them are. -- James Higgi
• Wiggum: I'd like to help you ma'am, but, heh heh, I'm afraid there's no law against mailing threatening letters.
  Marge: [indignantly] I'm pretty sure there is. Wiggum...
• >I hate "me too" postings. Me too. -- Steve Lamont writes -- Charleen Stoner, charleen@ADS.COM