Re: HTML email

Sorry to prolong (and further degrade) this already overlong thread, but
somehow the one-upsmanship (or -downsmanship I suppose) about who has the
most primitive email environment reminded of the venerable item below. My
only excuse is that it's a Friday in May ...

 - RL "Bob" (proud Pine user, of course)

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        WARNING: Nerd humor follows

> From: gunnarh(_at_)dhhalden(_dot_)no (GUNNAR HORRIGMO)
> Subject: Re: Help with XMS mailer on my Game-Boy?
> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:53:02 GMT
> rbw%apple(_dot_)com(_at_)fico(_dot_)UUCP (Randy Wong) writes:
> > dmsilev(_at_)athena(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu (Daniel M Silevitch) writes:
> > > sdoran(_at_)sam(_dot_)ksu(_dot_)ksu(_dot_)edu (Steven Marcotte) writes:
> > > > bgohari(_at_)wam(_dot_)umd(_dot_)edu (Babak Gohari) writes:
> > > > > tilden(_at_)sportster(_dot_)ksu(_dot_)ksu(_dot_)edu (Tilden-Master of 
> > > > > Illogic) writes:
> > > > > > dlutz(_at_)willamette(_dot_)edu (David Lutz) writes:
> > > > > > > dmsilev(_at_)athena(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu (Daniel M Silevitch) writes:
> > > > > > > > brat(_at_)access(_dot_)digex(_dot_)com (Brat Wizard) writes:
> > > > > > > > > galt%peruvian(_dot_)utah(_dot_)edu(_at_)cs(_dot_)utah(_dot_)edu writes:
> > > > > > > > > > Michael Schmahl [Black-Robe Mage] writes:
> > > > > > > > > > > lairdpg(_at_)lub001(_dot_)lamar(_dot_)edu writes
> > > > > > > > > > > > 22161-bunz writes:
> > > > > > > > > > > > > Brett G Person writes:
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > smith(_at_)ctron(_dot_)com writes:
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > IronEagle writes:
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Matt Welsh writes:
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Right! I run System V on my VIC-20!
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hmmmm...well, I am getting SVR4 for my HP 48SX.....
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > HA! _I'm_ just finishing up a port of VMS for my Timex Sinclair!
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Top THAT!
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm running NextStep on Atari 2600 Video Game System.
> > > > > > > > > > > > > Just last night I was able to get Windows to boot on my Sears PONG
> > > > > > > > > > > > > game.
> > > > > > > > > > > > I am replying to this message with my built-in VAX Mailer on my
> > > > > > > > > > > > Game-Boy.
> > > > > > > > > > > > I just installed a 10 Gigabyte Drive to handle all the replies!
> > > > > > > > > > > > However, it only runs at 230,000 Baud due to the large drive
> > > > > > > > > > > > slowing it down.
> > > > > > > > > > > I fear I will not be getting news any longer...  The batteries on my
> > > > > > > > > > > calculator-watch are running out.
> > > > > > > > > > My calculator-watch is solar...  And if I turned off the lights, NO
> > > > > > > > > > ONE would be getting news...
> > > > > > > > > Feh. I'm so slick NASA just awarded ME the TERADATA contract to run on
> > > > > > > > > my TV remote! They liked my proposal mainly because I'm ALSO able to
> > > > > > > > > shoehorn in the TEXAS SUPERCOLLIDER computations between commercials!
> > > > > > > > > Beat THAT!
> > > > > > > > Well, well, well. SSC calculations, huh. I built a system out of 2
> > > > > > > > inches of wire, 3 pennies and a AA battery that does realtime
> > > > > > > > calculations of particle vectors during the Big Bang. A complete
> > > > > > > > simulation of the first 2 years of the life of the universe, accurate
> > > > > > > > to the theoretical limit, takes about 5 seconds.
> > > > > > > And you guys think you are so great.  I just spent the last half hour
> > > > > > > getting X11 to run on my slide rule.  I am still having problems
> > > > > > > connecting it to the net around here, but I would welcome any
> > > > > > > suggestions.
> > > > > > So what!!! I'm running Xinitrc, TWMRC, Internet, and 27 muds off of a
> > > > > > paperclip.  Not to mention the fact that I am designing a new form of
> > > > > > television with 7000 pixels based off a piece of tissue paper.  Next!!!
> > > > > Man, that's baby stuff.  I'm running a particle accelerator utilizing
> > > > > matter-antimatter reactions in my doorknob, and calculating everything in
> > > > > the fourth dimension using a single dip switch and a large glass of water.
> > > > Child's play, I have an old piece of cheese that is, at this very moment,
> > > > raytracing an actual model of the universe five hours from now, while
> > > > at the same time calculating the heat produced from the new intel
> > > > Pentium.
> > > And you people think that you are hackers! I'm currently engaged in a
> > > project which involves simultaneous simulation of multiple universes (To
> > > see what would happen if various constants change. Pi=8.4 is an interest-
> > > ing one.) My hardware consists of a single wooden pencil (no paper). With
> > > it, I can do real-time simulations of 2^32 universes in parallel.
> > You guys are wimps!!  I've just finished converting a microwave oven into a
> > paradimensional teleportation device.  The only problem I'm having so far is
> > that my breakfast bagel keeps disappearing!!  May have to eat it raw . . .
> Sorry, that's my fault.  I'm afraid that the high-energy laser-pumped
> negentropic vortex generator I made from my own nostril hair, which is
> currently cranking out entire new universes at the rate of 7.6 per picosecond,
> was breaking the FCC emissions limits and gronking your microwave's control
> panel.  It should work properly now.  Also, my cat Arthur was FTPing hundreds
> of terabytes of PD software from Epsilon Eridani in the year 4741 A.D. over
> the faster-than-light Ethernet interface I built for him, and this may have
> been loading the Net a little yesterday.  My sincere apologies to everyone who
> noticed any performance degradation.
Damn, I thought I was doin' some really advanced R&D. But I only have a
humble feather pen with built in spell checking. It checks all languages
since Adam & Eve plus a few forthcoming languages. But after what I've seen
here, that's not good enough for a Nobel Prize..I have to work harder...
Maybe some of the languages from outer space will help ?? I just have to
use my FingerNail Time&Universe Transporter(tm) to get there and learn them.