RE: Compression test...it was only a joke, folks

[Avi <Avi@cosmoslink.net>]

Lectures, lectures, lectures.......
Do we really need to make a comment every time?..........
Avi


At 10:22 PM 11/16/97 UT, you wrote:
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>From: 	owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net on behalf of Avi
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>>That messege is a JOKE, JOKE, JOKE, JOKE...........................
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>Perhaps it would be a good idea to make it obvious at the begining of a 
>message if it is intended to be humrous. We should all remember that this
list 
>is open to people of all ethnic and national groups and among them will be 
>people who do not use english (either UK, US or international) as their
first 
>language and as such may have little or no grasp of our humour. Even between 
>the UK and US there can at times be a great divide, witness the number of UK 
>tv comedy shows that have to be remade for the US audience and the number of 
>US shows that fall flat in the UK.
>
>It was only once I had read half of the compression test message that I 
>realised with relief that it was meant as a joke, but seeing the responses
on 
>the list it is clear that a number of people took it at face value.
>
>Jim Haseltine
>88 Ur quattro
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