[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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
Hey Rick,
That does pretty much sum up the Rangernet over the past what? 4 years?
Iron Mike
