[ale] Re: 115.00 fine for bouncing email to critter at wizvax.net

Wandered Inn esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
Mon Nov 8 08:40:03 EST 1999


I received the email too, but was just confused as to whether it was
pure humor, or an attempt to determine bouncing email addresses.  Did
anyone else get this?  Was the purpose to identify bouncing addresses? 
Please clue me in as I'm easily confused.  Age does that to you...

Dan Newcombe wrote:
> 
> > I am sending this message in outrage.  Below is an unedited copy (save for
> > the '>'s added by PINE) of an email I received allegedly from Eric Z.
> > Ayers, and I hereby publicly challenge him to appologise for, or disown,
> > the following email.
> 
> Gee...I got off easy with only a 21.00 fine.
> 
> I believe Foghorn Leghorn said it best with "It's a joke son".
> 
> It was just a more interesting way of saying "hey ... mail to you has been
> bouncing" than just saying that.
> 
> My mail is usually 100% reliable to, so I'm curious if when I was bouncing
> was when my officemate decided to put a piece of paper between my network
> cable and port to drive me nuts trying to figure out why my machine wasn't
> on the net.
> 
> Lighten up.

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