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• From: ESchluessel
• Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 20:46:13 -0700
• Message-ID: <000SM5BS5.001S4K3N7.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

Rob a dit:
>>ps. Is the qb list
functioning? I haven't got anything in over a month.


You know how back in the old days of the Net people
would rig Coke(r) machines to servers so you could
dispense ice cold Coca-Cola remotely without leaving your
desk?

Someone at Silicon Age(TM) needs to build a Poke R.
Machine(r) such that people subscribed to silicon-age.net
mailing lists can click a button on a webpage or enter
command via a UNIX shell and poke R. whenever the
qb-lists aren't updated.

Of course, the QB
community is insufficiently mature to handle the
responsibilities of being able to anonymously inflict discomfort
at a distance. We'd need login names and passwords
and a careful log of who poked R. with what when.
This log could be posted to the list monthly, and
whoever poked R. the most in a given month would receive
a prize, most likely some kind of crimping tool or
a book of Lettish erotic ballads.

That being
said, Rob, I most recently received posts from the
QB-announce list on the 29th of June (today's the 4th of
July, happy Anniversary of Two Important Presidents'
Deaths; John Adams can Bite Me). 

Edmund