From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V2 #73 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Tuesday, April 29 1997 Volume 02 : Number 073 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: Sackcloth and ashes [Bill Hargreaves ] Alloy: One for the man in the courdroys(sp?) [Neil Leacy ] Re: Alloy: Sackcloth and ashes ["MEYER,ANN ELIZABETH" ] Re: Alloy: Admin - posting suggestions [Elaine Linstruth Subject: Alloy: Sackcloth and ashes In the Tap Room on Fri Apr 25 1897 10:05:42 mjordan@goodwill.org wrote :- unfortunately, I've pissed people off on Alloy recently because I did some >off-topic stuff. I'm not feeling very happy about participating in the >Tap Room or Alloy right now. Oh well... if this place ever speeds up again, somebody >drop me a line @ mjordan@goodwill.org Sigh. Back to work, and back to lurker status on >Alloy. I think I might have been instrumental in giving the wrong impression to our friend Melissa, in which case I prostrate myself in the presence of you all, while wearing this rather alluring sackcloth and ashes and flagellating myself with this soggy Bun Fu Dog, in an attempt to make amends (please don't stand on my fingers, thank you). The reference to "being a nuisence by modem" actually refers to an item I got from the 'Laugh of the Day' mailing list, which I append for your delight and delecation. I got it wrong anyway, it's "pest by modem." Melissa, forgive me, I am but a simple Brit, But not so much a wit, As I thought I was. (I'm no poet either.) Slarvi Gargles Bees (as a penance) ****************************************************************************** Be sure to visit LaughWEB (http://www.misty.com/laughweb/) ****************************************************************************** *File Description: How to be a Pest by Modem* Here's how to be a pest-by-modem: *Make up fake acronyms. On-line veterans like to use abbreviations like IMHO (in my humble opinion) and RTFM (read the f...... manual) to show that they're "hep" to the lingo. Make up your own that don't stand for anything (SETO, BARL, CP30), use them liberally, and then refuse to explain what they stand for ("You don't know? RTFM"). *WRITE ALL YOUR MESSAGES IN ALL CAPS AND DON'T USE PERIODS OR RETURNS SO THAT EVERYONE HAS TO SCROLL ACROSS THEIR SCREENS TO READ EVERY LINE ALSO USE A LOT OF !!!!!! AND DDOOUUBBLLEESS TO SHOW THAT YOU'RE EXCITED ABOUT BEING HERE!!!!!!! *When replying to your mail, correct everyone's grammar and spelling and point out their typos, but don't otherwise respond to the content of their messages. When they respond testily to your 'creative criticism," do it again. Continue until they go away. *Software and files offered on-line are often "compressed" so that it won't take so long to travel over the phone lines. Buy a compression program and compress everything you send, including one-word E-mail responses like "Thanks." *Upload text files with Bible passages about sin or guilt and give them names like "SexyHouseWives," then see how many people download them. Challenge your friends to come up with the most popular come-on. Take bets and calculate odds on the results of each upload's popularity. *cc: all your E-mail to Al Gore (vice.president@whitehouse.gov) so that he can keep track of what's happening on the information Superhighway Internet. *Join a discussion group, and tie whatever's being discussed back to an unrelated central theme of your own. For instance, if you're in a discussion of gun control, respond to every message with the observation that those genetically superior tomatoes seem to have played an important role. Within days, all discussion of gun control will have ceased as people write you threatening messages and instruct all other members to ignore you. ****************************************************************************** LAUGH OF THE DAY - A service of LaughWEB (http://www.misty.com/laughweb/). ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 10:56:02 -0400 From: Beth Meyer Subject: Alloy: Homepages, all? Hi, folks; Well, as promised quite some time ago, I actually did collect up as many Web addresses of Alloy members as I could find, and compiled them together in my "Virtual Cocktail Party" that is part of my home page. To check it out, you can use my home address below, or go directly to -- http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt9020a/friends.html Of course, if your URL is listed there and you do not want to be, please let me know and I will remove it promptly. (Of course, I would also wonder why you would put something on the Web and then NOT want people to see it, but hey....) Don't worry, this is not a high-traffic site to my knowledge. On the other hand, if you're not listed and want to be, please send me your URL and I will add it the next time I fiddle with the page. I found it kinda fun to be able to check out the pages of a lot of Alloy members, one after the other. Any other suggestions are appreciated. I'm not totally happy with the formatting and spacing at the moment, but I only had so much time... Cheers, Beth - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Beth Meyer School of Psychology Pager: +1-404-866-1362 Georgia Institute of Technology FAX: +1-404-894-8905 Atlanta, GA 30332-0170 bmeyer@psy.tfe.gatech.edu http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt9020a/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 16:36:31 From: Neil Leacy Subject: Alloy: One for the man in the courdroys(sp?) Last night I saw one of my other musical heroes in concert and a little tale he told gave me a question to bamboozle any (70's) musical expert ! Cat Steven's best known hit is "Morniing Has Broken". But who actually wrote the well known piano intro, cadenza and outro as well as arranged the choir parts (and all in one day) but was never credited on the album or to this day been paid his session fee of UK9? The clues are in the question... Regards, Neil Leacy IT Support (nleacy@it-excelsior.britax.co.uk) ==================================================================== For further information on child car seats designed and produced by Britax-Excelsior visit our web pages at http://www.britax.co.uk/ ==================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 17:10:12 +0100 (BST) From: Bill Hargreaves Subject: Re: Alloy: One for the man in the courdroys(sp?) Liberace. At 16:36 28/04/97, you wrote: >Last night I saw one of my other musical heroes in concert and a little >tale he told gave me a question to bamboozle any (70's) musical expert >! > > >Cat Steven's best known hit is "Morniing Has Broken". But who actually >wrote the well known piano intro, cadenza and outro as well as arranged >the choir parts (and all in one day) but was never credited on the album >or to this day been paid his session fee of UK9? > >The clues are in the question... > >Regards, > >Neil Leacy >IT Support (nleacy@it-excelsior.britax.co.uk) > >==================================================================== >For further information on child car seats designed and produced by >Britax-Excelsior visit our web pages at > > http://www.britax.co.uk/ > >==================================================================== > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 13:50:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Keith Dawe Subject: Re: Alloy: One for the man in the courdroys(sp?) On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Neil Leacy wrote: > Cat Steven's best known hit is "Morniing Has Broken". But who actually > wrote the well known piano intro, cadenza and outro as well as arranged > the choir parts (and all in one day) but was never credited on the album > or to this day been paid his session fee of UK9? Rick Wakeman? - --Omega - ------------------------------------------------------- omega@torfree.net Head of Dealer's Room -- ANIME NORTH Toronto's FIRST anime convention -- Sat. August 9, 1997 - ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 17:40:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mary A. Brown" Subject: Re: Alloy: Sackcloth and ashes > I think I might have been instrumental in giving the wrong impression to our > friend Melissa, in which case I prostrate myself in the presence of you all, > while wearing this rather alluring sackcloth and ashes and flagellating > myself with this soggy Bun Fu Dog, in an attempt to make amends (please > don't stand on my fingers, thank you). Yes, pleeeeze, Melissa, come back! I love to hear your voice, both actual and virtual. I rather enjoyed the nostalgic flashback and think it was a helluva more interesting than the discussion of the Spice Girls currently going on with the Crowded House mailing list. And besides, *I* started it with my Love Rollercoaster comment! I'll don the dominatrix outfit to keep Slarvi in line... And now for the Dolby content - did anyone else see the TV's Practical Jokes and Bloopers episode with our hero with the joke being on Stevie Wonder? I finally got a VCR the other day and have been happily watching snippets of TMDR from years gone by. Mary ________________________________________________________________________________ Mary A. Brown, Genetic Ingenue | Department of Biochemistry Phone: (606) 257-7039,-7349 | University of Kentucky Fax: (606) 323-1037 | 800 Rose St. E-mail: mabrown@pop.uky.edu | Lexington, KY 40536-0084 "The sentence is all my own/And the price is to watch it fail" Neil Finn ________________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 19:08:26 -0400 (EDT) From: "MEYER,ANN ELIZABETH" Subject: Re: Alloy: Sackcloth and ashes Hi, folks; > Yes, pleeeeze, Melissa, come back! I love to hear your voice, both May I add my voice to the chorus -- I have learned to expect particularly cool material when I see Melissa's name on the 'Author' line! (Not that there aren't a few other sources of particularly cool material, of course -- see below.) > And now for the Dolby content - did anyone else see the TV's > Practical Jokes and Bloopers episode with our hero with the > joke being on Stevie Wonder? No! Please do tell us more -- what happened? Cheers, Beth Meyer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 97 09:29:50 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Alloy: Admin - posting suggestions Hi y'all, With the recent slight misunderstanding about what's off-topic, on-topic, near-topic, or just plain alongside-topic, I thought I'd put my semi-formal admin hat on for a bit so we all know where we stand. There is no such thing as an off-topic message here. The way I see it is this: when Alloy started, I mentioned the image of us all in the drawing room of the FES clubrooms. That was in part to try and give the list a similar feel to the official FES website, but the other reason was to set the tone of the conversation. Sure, we predominantly talk about all things Dolby, but what (I think) really adds to it is that conversations meander along naturally here as they would if we were talking in person. It's this meandering that helps each of us get to know the other better, offers new perspective, and makes each of us think of things that maybe we wouldn't have individually. To quote Depeche Mode: Someone who'll help me see things In a different light All the things I detest I will almost like It's not for me to tell you what's appropriate to post in Alloy, after all, you make Alloy what it is today, not I. I'm just the guy who helps keep things running behind the scenes. I think we're lucky in that everyone here is very supportive, friendly, and uses common sense so this doesn't really need saying but just for the record: The only thing I'd like to ask is that you keep in mind that /everyone's/ views and opinions count. If you disagree with something someone posts, think about it and (respectfully) pose a different view. Except for cut & dry facts like discographic or biographic details, there are no right or wrong views here. If in the unlikely event someone says something that seriously offends you, email them privately and tell them. If that doesn't work or you're uncomfortable doing that, email me and I'll follow it up. That said, I should say upfront that if someone launches into a five page tirade on say why the Sinclair ZX-81 was the best computer ever made, I will have no option but to make them disappear quietly. ;-) I'll avoid putting any more specific guidelines here - I don't think there's any need, and I've harped on for long enough, but as always, if you have any comments or suggestions about how I can improve the list (like say getting a different colour admin hat :-) then please do email me at thanks for your time, stay well, Paul. __________________________________________________________________________ Paul Baily paulb@thehub.com.au Consulting SE/IT Mercenary http://www.thehub.com.au/~paulb Brisbane, Australia There is a spirit here that won't be broken ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 16:49:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Elaine Linstruth Subject: Re: Alloy: Admin - posting suggestions On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Paul Baily wrote: > The way I see it is this: when Alloy started, I mentioned the image of us > all in the drawing room of the FES clubrooms. That was in part to try and > give the list a similar feel to the official FES website, but the other > reason was to set the tone of the conversation. Woohoo, and attaboy. That's the way I like to think of us, too. I bet it would make Thomas sad if he thought the fans on this list were too uptight to feel as though they couldn't say anything that wasn't directly related to him or Headspace. - -- Elaine Linstruth Palmdale, CA (USA) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V2 #73 **************************