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Ärende: FidoNews 21:41 [08/11]: In The Snooze Ten Years Ago
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                   IN THE SNOOZE TEN YEARS AGO
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   Thank you to Darr Hoag of 1:2330/4, Jergen Smulders of 2:281/201,
Jim Roberts of 1:266/25, and John Souvestre of 1:396/1 ... all four of
whom wrote to us notes that their BBS's have all the back issues of
the Snooze. Thanks to John, 1:1/23 now also has a complete collection.

   The last two articles of this issue have the same title. Actually,
it should have been the last three, but I concatonated two to get them
into the right order. It is one of those huge missives that are
basically twenty netmail messages quoting everything from the NC of
Butt-fuck Idaho to the president of ford motors and whining for ten
pages that nobody ever reads.

   The essence of the article is the same as most of them. Somebody
annoyed someone, the someone whips out everything they can find called
policy, and starts reading fine print. Finally they find a paragraph
they can use, and issue a *POLICY COMPLAINT*.  This one basically
*demands* that a moderator be removed because (get this), he claims
his LD on his income tax. Yes indeed. That is comercial use, doncha
know?

   It is no secret that I am not a great lover of the law clerk types
that go to bed each night clutching their copies of policy to their
breasts while they dream dreams of Parry Mason of The Net. But this is
getting ridiculous, damnit. The *C positions were created because we
need basic work done (remember the nodelist?). We have turned them
into positions that only an idiot would touch ... a position that has
to spend hours and hours dealing with snivelers who want to be
polititions.

   Now we need Echopol as well?


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