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ToiletCam followup
If you're not familar with the WPS ToiletCam web page, you can probably
guess from the name what it is anyway. Although no longer in active
service, the creators are currently sharing some of the mail they received
while the "cam" was supposedly on. Here is what they chose as the mail
which shows the best understanding of the purpose of their site:
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 11:22:28 -0500
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected] (flip phillips)
Subject: Scientific investigation of http://wps.com/toilet/
Sirs:
We here at the Great Big Advanced Center for Tomorrow have been
carefully examining your alleged periodic updating toilet photo.
By utilizing sophisticated image prcessing techniques, our unlimited
computing resources, the computing resources of the NSA, and my
mother's CoCo, we have come to the stunning conclusion that this
picture never changes.
Three logical explanations appear to be possible, a) Scam, b) Broken
and public is not notified, or c) you have purchaced the world's
most linear Connectix Camera and the world's most linear lightbulb.
Since this is the "Internet" we are talking about, both (a) and
(b) seem highly unlikely. Therefore, after weeks of painstaking
analysis, we have decided to back (c) as the most likely cause.
Congratulations on your purchase. Please keep up the good work. We
are all counting on you.
Sincerely-
f phillips
v perotti
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Eric Bennett ( [email protected] ; http://www.pobox.com/~ericb )
I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect
that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an
interpreter.
-Nicholas Petreley, Sr. Editor, InfoWorld Magazine
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