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[alt.sysadmin.recovery] Sneaky Tech Support LART.
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From: [email protected] (Ben Cantrick (alias Macky Stingray))
Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery
Subject: Sneaky Tech Support LART.
Date: 30 Jan 1997 18:51:59 GMT
Organization: Silky Doll Women's Lingerie, MegaTokyo, JP
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Who says I never learn anything in class?
My AI professor, grad student of MIT, told us about a particularly sneaky
way to LART those "squeaky wheel" lusers.
...Hook your help mail up to ELIZA.[1]
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To: root@vax
Subject: The vax clock is off due to daylight savings time.
The vax isn't keeping the right time. I think daylighgt savings time
has happened, is why.
-J. Luser.
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From: root@vax
To: jluser@vax
Subject: ?
Why do you think that the vax clock is off due to daylight savings time?
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From: jluser@vax
To: root@vax
Subject: It's 5pm...
I think the vax's clock is off because it's really 5pm, but the vax's
clock says 4.
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From: root@vax
To: jluser@vax
Subject: ?
Why do you say that it's 5pm?
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From: jluser@vax
To: root@vax
Subject: Huh?
Why is it 5pm?? Because it's 5pm...
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From: root@vax
To: jluser@vax
Subject: ?
Could you be more clear about huh?
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[...]
This exchange, of course, brings to mind the punchline to a riddle that
most of us have probably asked ourselves at one time or another. Namely:
"How do you keep a luser busy for hours?"
-Ben
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[1] Not that _I_ would advocate this kind of thing. Heavens no![2]
[2] <Ring, ring!> "Hello, CNS Advising." "The thingy doesn't work." "Why do
you think your thingy doesn't work?"[3] etc...
[3] Don't take THAT conversation out of context!
- --
"BGC: Because some of us believe women over 14 are still sexy."
=--------- http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~cantrick/home.html -------------=
*Ben Cantrick, diehard BGC otaku and Priss fan. ---> THE BGC DUBS SUCK! <---*
*Mac? Ha. "When I want to spend 50% of my time fighting an OS, I'll use VMS."*
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