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Message no. 1
From: Damion Milliken <milko@***.EDU.AU>
Subject: List Purge
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 03:18:57 +1000
Tim Kerby writes:

> Plus, the list purge, so we do need to be a little flexible. :)

List purge? What horrendous catacalysmic occurence was this?

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Message no. 2
From: Tim Kerby <drekhead@***.NET>
Subject: Re: List Purge
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:34:14 -0400
On 17 Jun 98, at 3:18, Damion Milliken wrote:

> Tim Kerby writes:
>
> > Plus, the list purge, so we do need to be a little flexible. :)
>
> List purge? What horrendous catacalysmic occurence was this?

Not too long before you rejoined, Mark had to purge the subscription
list, and everyone had to resub. Had something to do with an unusual
number of invalid addresses, or some such.

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Message no. 3
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: List Purge
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 13:53:35 -0400
At 03:18 AM 6/17/98 +1000, Damion Milliken wrote these timeless words:
>Tim Kerby writes:
>
>> Plus, the list purge, so we do need to be a little flexible. :)
>
>List purge? What horrendous catacalysmic occurence was this?
>
Mark cleaned out the files, purgiung all the list members to clear out the
inactive accounts. We probably had quite a few people subbed but set
"nomail".

Bull
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Message no. 4
From: Brett Borger <bxb121@***.EDU>
Subject: Re: List Purge
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 14:29:59 EST
> > Plus, the list purge, so we do need to be a little flexible. :)
>
> List purge? What horrendous catacalysmic occurence was this?

Well, it started out innocently...first, someone insisted on trying
to prove you could ground through quickenings. He refused to drop
the issue, and tempers got short. Then someone else came on and sent
a huge attachment about (or so his HTML message explained) his
designs for essence free cyber, Wired reflexes 5, Improved Gas Vent
10, and, of course, the orichalcum weapon-focus cyberarm with built
in Barret firing APDS Explosive hellblast anchor rounds. That's when
the dam snapped (despite Gurth volunteering to stick his finger in
the hole). Spike and his gang of .grumpy cronies lynched the
Munchies. Some fool said he was an immortal cybered shapshifting
vampiric physical mage around then, and the lynching got to be a
vicious mob. When the blood mist settled, the population of the list
was way down, and this event, the Purge, a.k.a. the Culling, was
recorded in the logs.

-=SwiftOne=-
Really. I was there.
Message no. 5
From: Lehlan Decker <decker@****.FSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: List Purge
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 15:00:49 -0500
>
> > > Plus, the list purge, so we do need to be a little flexible. :)
> >
> > List purge? What horrendous catacalysmic occurence was this?
>
> Well, it started out innocently...first, someone insisted on trying
> to prove you could ground through quickenings. He refused to drop
> the issue, and tempers got short. Then someone else came on and sent
> a huge attachment about (or so his HTML message explained) his
> designs for essence free cyber, Wired reflexes 5, Improved Gas Vent
> 10, and, of course, the orichalcum weapon-focus cyberarm with built
> in Barret firing APDS Explosive hellblast anchor rounds. That's when
> the dam snapped (despite Gurth volunteering to stick his finger in
> the hole). Spike and his gang of .grumpy cronies lynched the
> Munchies. Some fool said he was an immortal cybered shapshifting
> vampiric physical mage around then, and the lynching got to be a
> vicious mob. When the blood mist settled, the population of the list
> was way down, and this event, the Purge, a.k.a. the Culling, was
> recorded in the logs.
>
LOL!!!!! I love it.
> -=SwiftOne=-
> Really. I was there.
Heh..so was I. It was great fun.

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Message no. 6
From: Caric <caric@********.COM>
Subject: Re: List Purge
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:34:23 -0700
> From: Brett Borger <bxb121@***.EDU>

> > > Plus, the list purge, so we do need to be a little flexible. :)
> >
> > List purge? What horrendous catacalysmic occurence was this?
>
> Well, it started out innocently...first, someone insisted on trying
> to prove you could ground through quickenings. He refused to drop
> the issue, and tempers got short. Then someone else came on and sent
> a huge attachment about (or so his HTML message explained) his
> designs for essence free cyber, Wired reflexes 5, Improved Gas Vent
> 10, and, of course, the orichalcum weapon-focus cyberarm with built
> in Barret firing APDS Explosive hellblast anchor rounds. That's when
> the dam snapped (despite Gurth volunteering to stick his finger in
> the hole). Spike and his gang of .grumpy cronies lynched the
> Munchies. Some fool said he was an immortal cybered shapshifting
> vampiric physical mage around then, and the lynching got to be a
> vicious mob. When the blood mist settled, the population of the list
> was way down, and this event, the Purge, a.k.a. the Culling, was
> recorded in the logs.
>
> -=SwiftOne=-
> Really. I was there.

I remember...I made a killing on nooses and torches that year.

Caric-the-string-'em-up-shaman
Message no. 7
From: Robert Watkins <robert.watkins@******.COM>
Subject: Re: List Purge
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:59:57 +1000
Caric the string-em-up shaman writes:
> I remember...I made a killing on nooses and torches that year.

Gee, what a coincidence... I made a killing with nooses and torches that
year. ;)

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Message no. 8
From: Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM>
Subject: Re: List Purge
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:12:31 -0400
At 03:59 PM 6/17/98 +1000, you wrote:
>Caric the string-em-up shaman writes:
>> I remember...I made a killing on nooses and torches that year.
>
>Gee, what a coincidence... I made a killing with nooses and torches that
>year. ;)

You too? I guess I just never noticed you in those lynch mobs. I was the
one trying to tear the munchies limb from limb with my bare hands. Spike
was about to go along with it when he realized it would take too long per
munchie.

Erik J.

It's all a joke folks, nothing to see here, it's all a joke...
Message no. 9
From: MC23 <mc23@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: List Purge
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:53:26 -0400
Once upon a time, Erik Jameson wrote;

>At 03:59 PM 6/17/98 +1000, you wrote:
>>Caric the string-em-up shaman writes:
>>> I remember...I made a killing on nooses and torches that year.
>>
>>Gee, what a coincidence... I made a killing with nooses and torches that
>>year. ;)
>
>You too? I guess I just never noticed you in those lynch mobs. I was the
>one trying to tear the munchies limb from limb with my bare hands. Spike
>was about to go along with it when he realized it would take too long per
>munchie.

One should enjoy his work. Every munchie I caught was impaled on a
large sharpen pole and slowly slide down into a fire made from their
sheets of characters which all killed Harlequin.
I think I might have even smiled then, a gesture I thought was
unknown to me.

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I swear to tell
the Truth, the partial Truth, or something like the Truth.

I am MC23
Message no. 10
From: Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM>
Subject: Re: List Purge
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:05:06 -0400
At 03:53 PM 6/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Once upon a time, Erik Jameson wrote;
>
>>At 03:59 PM 6/17/98 +1000, you wrote:
>>>Caric the string-em-up shaman writes:
>>>> I remember...I made a killing on nooses and torches that year.
>>>
>>>Gee, what a coincidence... I made a killing with nooses and torches that
>>>year. ;)
>>
>>You too? I guess I just never noticed you in those lynch mobs. I was the
>>one trying to tear the munchies limb from limb with my bare hands. Spike
>>was about to go along with it when he realized it would take too long per
>>munchie.
>
> One should enjoy his work. Every munchie I caught was impaled on a
>large sharpen pole and slowly slide down into a fire made from their
>sheets of characters which all killed Harlequin.
> I think I might have even smiled then, a gesture I thought was
>unknown to me.

I'm pretty sure you did MC. I can't say it was a pretty sight either, you
grinning by the light of a bonfire. Looked like Lucifer himself you did.

Frightened me so much I almost stopped lynching another munchie that
claimed to have killed Dunkelzahn with his rigger/decker/physical mage
(Grade 20 donchaknow!)/street samurai. Then I saw the character sheet and
strung him up proper!

Erik J.

Remember folks, it's not personal, it's just a bit of funnin', just a
joke...

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