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Message no. 1
From: Marc A Renouf <jormung@*****.UMICH.EDU>
Subject: Fiction
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 19:35:34 -0400
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Well, I guess I'll jump on the band-wagon with all this fiction
stuff. This little excerpt comes from a Confer (tm) system for
roleplaying games we have here at UofM. There is an item on it dedicated
to my Shadowrun campaign, and on it the players and I can discuss
scheduling, character stuff, etc. I also use it to disseminate "news"
for the campaign world.
This little bit is a snippet from your typical morning news
show. I'll warn you now, though. There are some...bizarre aspects of my
campaign. Hey, if you guys can use Call of Cthulhu and Dark Conspiracy,
I can use weird stuff too. Anyway, it's meant to be humorous, so take it
with a grain of salt.
Enjoy!

Marc

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Message no. 2
From: Sandra Gillette <Meegat@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Fiction
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 1995 20:10:25 -0400
I am sorry but I could not read the story.What was I supposed to do to read
it?
Message no. 3
From: Bob Ooton <topcat@**.CENCOM.NET>
Subject: Re: Fiction
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 00:59:16 -0500
>I am sorry but I could not read the story.What was I supposed to do to read
>it?

Gotta agree with that...


-- Bob Ooton <topcat@******.net>
(who feels like he just channel surfed across a satellite full of
commercials...)
Message no. 4
From: P Ward <P.Ward@**.CF.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Fiction
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 12:11:20 BST
Marc
<wrote something or other, I can't read it, bet it's good too, damn>

Well, the story came through, now all I Need's a Base-64 Decoder.
Unless of course, there's something real easy you have to do to extract
it (probably is, I'm not a computer guru(.

Anyone got one floating around?

Phil (Runs-With-The-Pack)
Message no. 5
From: Marc A Renouf <jormung@*****.UMICH.EDU>
Subject: Re: Fiction
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 13:41:43 -0400
On Sat, 8 Apr 1995, Sandra Gillette wrote:

> I am sorry but I could not read the story.What was I supposed to do to read
> it?

Hmmmm. I tried the standard "attach" command in pine. The
document was a pico text file, so it should be fairly recognizable to
most mailers. I dunno.

Marc
Message no. 6
From: Kay and Pete Hanson <kidkaos@******.NET>
Subject: Re: Fiction
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 06:31:19 -0500
snip
> Hmmmm. I tried the standard "attach" command in pine. The
>document was a pico text file, so it should be fairly recognizable to
>most mailers. I dunno.
>
>Marc
>
I thought you did a good job...informative and humerous :)
It read fine on my mailer.........Ya done good, Kid !!!
Kay

Definitions:
kid, as a noun, anyone kuhl.
Ya. friendly form of Yo, a greeting meening you in a possitive sense
mailer, the software program that always is screwing up on a computer
Other words described by request, fast requests need bribes :)

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