[RR] New Rangernet Shorthand idea

[Rick Barnhouse]

You've heard the joke about inmates in the prison that just numbered all their jokes so if they wanted to tell a funny, they could just tap out the number on the bars and everyone else could either laugh or boo or say "I never heard that one before!"   To save bandwidth we could do the same with Rangernet common discussions and problems. Number the Subjects:   1. NTC 2. Women in Rangers 3. Vegemite 4. Vegemite and Rootbeer 5. Grits 6. Halloween 7. The Patrol Method 8. Banter on Rangernet 9. Christians and Drinking 10.The New Program     Then number the responses:   1. I'm for it, brother 2. I'm against it brother 3. I'M AGAINST IT BROTHER 4. I'M AGAINST IT ***** 5. I'M AGAINST IT ***** AND SO IS GOD 6. Yum/Yes/Zesty/Yea 7. Yucky/No/Not-Zesty/Boo 8. Not in America 9. Only in America 10. etc.   And Reasons:   1. The Bible tells me so. 2. God told me so 3. I say so 4. Just try it and you'll know it's bad 5. Just try it and you'll know it's good 6. Sound right to me   We could post them in the Net Manners/Rhinocerous Hide letter that we receive periodically. then newcomers could be spared the pain they could otherwise endure when first joining our group, and we could break them in slowly. Kind of get them hooked you know, breaking the code. A normal RangerNet communique would then look like this:   Subject: 1 Message: 1   It would be concise and to the point. Very much a GUY-thing. We could do even better by including everything in the subject line like this:   Subject: 3:7:4   And if you are the wordy type your could give references:   Subject: 9:2:1 Message Matt. 5:16   This procedure could be expanded adinfinitum (although that shouldn't be necessary) by someone smarter than myself as long as we kept a list somewhere of the accepted usage.   Now how is this for a waste of bandwidth?! Sorry, just had time to waste. (or did I ?)   10:1:5 Rick Barnhouse SMDTC