From news@wetware.com Mon Jul 15 23:26:34 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.28]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id XAA21122; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:26:33 -0400 Received: from relay5.UU.NET by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA08594; Mon, 15 Jul 96 23:26:21 EDT Received: from wetware.com by relay5.UU.NET with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: wetware.wetware.com [207.20.11.1]) id QQayob25270; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:25:27 -0400 (EDT) Received: from numbers.wetware.com by wetware.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0ufyPw-000JaTC; Mon, 15 Jul 96 17:55 PDT Received: by numbers.wetware.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0ufyPw-00000xC; Mon, 15 Jul 96 17:55 PDT To: talk-answers@uunet.uu.net Path: NewsWatcher!user From: bc@wetware.com (bill coderre) Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,talk.answers,news.answers Subject: [talk.bizarre] Welcome to talk.bizarre! v. 1.6 (2/18/96) Followup-To: poster Date: 16 Jul 1996 00:55:11 GMT Organization: Castle Wetware Internet Services, Inc. Lines: 161 Message-Id: References: <3smke7$39k@sun4.bham.ac.uk> <3sms8b$29mk@unixfe.rl.ac.uk> <804243818snz@vankerac.demon.co.uk> <3sp4dl$nrm@sun4.bham.ac.uk> <804270434snz@vankerac.demon.co.uk> <3sq5v7$pk5@news1.halcyon.com> <3srhnq$bos@sun4.bham.ac.uk> <3su3v9$8rg@sun4.bham.ac.uk> <3suhci$le7@plato.ansa.co.uk> Reply-To: bc@wetware.com Nntp-Posting-Host: news.wetware.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Archive-Name: talk-bizarre-faq Posting-Frequency: fortnightly X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.1.2 WELCOME TO TALK.BIZARRE, the Usenet outpost of X Industries, Inc. X Industries, the omnipresent corporation that everyone's been programmed to fear and love, has been "making the world safe for Technology" for an undisclosed amount of time! You must be awfully excited to be a new "employee" (pitiful cog inside this mighty corporate leviathan), far too excited to pay careful attention to the information you will soon be subsumed in. So we're going to make the whole process as simple and straightforward as possible, in this brief yet comprehensive Employee Manual. Please take a moment to read all 6,574 characters and 958 words of it. Naturally, as with any megalolithic corporation, we have certain employee rules and guidelines. Failure to comply results in Protein Recycling, so pay attention! First off, these are the three hard-and-fast rules of talk.bizarre: 1) READ THIS FAQ before posting. 2) Please DO NOT CROSSPOST. 3) FOLLOW THE FOUR RULES of posting below. talk.bizarre is a virtual community [remainder of text deleted by folder-shrink.pl]