>From jocelyng@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jocelyn Elana Goldfein)
~Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
~Subject: Re: C'mon folks...

Brambrack (brambrack@aol.com) wrote:
[drivel munched]

Y'know, I really hate to perpetuate stereotypes and all, but just check out this guy's address. Do you suppose there's some sort of subliminal messaging in the AOL software?

"Welcome to AOL! What do you want to do today?"

<you will post inflammatory attacks onto random newsgroups>

"How about trying out Internet Usenet?"

<you will make a complete and utter fool of yourself by posting about things you don't understand>

"Use our convenient Graphical User Interface to read and post to any of millions of newsgroups!!!"

<c'mon... it's just a little screen with letters on it. there aren't any human beings out there to offend. just think of all that frustration you've been storing up... the way your boss is warning you you'd better shape up, the way your mother won't stop nagging you about your brother Fred's big promotion... the way you haven't had a date in 3 and a half years, and it turned out that the last one only did it because she was being blackmailed by your younger sister... go ahead! take out all your feelings of impotence and despair on a community which couldn't possibly really include hundreds of thousands of folks attempting to have fruitful discussions about interesting issues. nah. so go for it. do it. spam the net. you know you want to. do it. Do It. DO IT!!!>

"Thank you for choosing AOL."

<moron>