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Re: The existence of Todd (was Re: **Bad Trader??**
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:20:42 GMT
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jsproat@io%StopSpammers%.com
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David Eaton wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Scott Edward Sanburn writes:
> > There was something BEFORE LUGNET? :)
> There are legends of a world once wrought with chaotic messages, spam, flame,
> and the occasional unrequested post from porn and infomercail cites... This
> world was called RTL. Then the almighty Todd did come, and he did say: "Let
> there be LUGNET!" And behold: LUGNET did come forth! And he separated the
> LUGNET from the RTL, and saw that the LUGNET was good. Some still say, however,
> that this phantom world of RTL still exists to this day, merely hidden by the
> glory that is LUGNET.
I knew a guy who said he had been there. He explored the murky depths of
RTL, and escaped tell horrid tales of off-topic messages, threads of flame,
and the shapeless "me too" creatures basking in the insipid cold glow of the
Beforeworld. Against my council, he went back again to map the chaos and to
find the legendary Source of the Off-Topic Posts...and I never heard from
him again.
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@io.com> ~~~ http://www.io.com/~jsproat/
Remember -- the enemy's gate is DOWN.
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| (...) flame, (...) however, (...) the (...) I don't believe in the before-Lugnet. I think this whole "RTL" thing is an urban legend. I mean, everyone has a story like this one. 'I knew someone who knows this guy who reads RTL...' but when you try to (...) (25 years ago, 23-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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