P-list as Commie plot?

Henry Musikar gravity at nicom.com
Thu Jun 5 10:59:35 CDT 1997


Being in the network business, IMHO mail lists are least that .coms, 
.orgs and .edus need to worry about. Most employees haven't the 
foggiest idea what a mail list is. "Surfing" the WWW is another 
story.

On  5 Jun 97 at 9:47, Craig G. Bleakley 
<cgbleak at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> wrote:

> Peculiar--that logjam of P-mail I get most weekdays, especially
> during North American business hours (and particularly on Fridays). 
> But weekends are pretty mellow.  Could it be that many of you/us are
> writing from work?  I appreciate our burning desire to communicate,
> but any time we spend on the list from our workplaces amounts to
> stealing from our caring, deidcated employers, you know.  This lack
> of work ethic could well be the bane of our civilization.  In fact,
> I wonder if the whole concept of e-mail lists (and perhaps the
> P-list in particular--or the internet in general, hell, the
> computer!) is nothing less than the most insidious Commie plot to
> sap American productivity since the invention of the snooze alarm. 
> You mock me now . . . .
> 
> 
> Craig Bleakley
> Patriot 
> 
> 
> 
> 


AsB4,
Henry Musikar

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