more OT stuff on M$ and silliness

\_ SMTP quoth Craig White on 4/4/2001 18:58 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ > -----Original Message-----
\_ > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
\_ > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Robert
\_ > N. Eaton
\_ > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 2:59 PM
\_ > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
\_ > Subject: Re: more OT stuff on M$ and silliness
\_ >
\_ >
\_ > Hey Rusty,
\_ >
\_ > Good story. For the original, read W.Somerset Maugham's "The Verger".
\_ >
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\_ This is probably one of the greatest problems with the internet and of
\_ course TV etc. Take a completely amusing and well written short story,
\_ plagarize the living sh*t out of it but try to put a more modern spin and
\_ there are enough illiterates out there that will think that it's clever.
\_
\_ That was a rather insipid, and unimaginative modernization of Maugham's
\_ short story, but of course, it had to be shortened because the TV/internet
\_ generati[...]

Man, Craig, if you're going to do a hyper-long rant, could you at
least warn us?

David

:-)