[YANNI] NYC: E-mail junkie

From: by way of David Andrews (stabron@ovis.net)
Date: Tue Nov 10 1998 - 13:26:24 PST


>Age is irrelevant... unless you are cheese.
>
>
>--------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Greg Hill <gregh@xmission.com>
>To: computermafia@xmission.com
>Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:52:25 -0700 (MST)
>Subject: (computermafia) Computermafia for Tuesday, November 10
>Message-ID: <199811101752.KAA06952@xmission.xmission.com>
>
>HOW TO TELL YOU'RE AN E-MAIL JUNKIE
>1. You wake up at 3 am to go to the bathroom and stop to check your
> e-mail on the way back to bed.
>2. You name your children Eudora, AOL and Dotcom.
>3. You turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, as if
> you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
>4. You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your
> lap...and your child in the overhead compartment.
>5. You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two,
> just for the free Internet access.
>6. You laugh at people with 14.4-baud modems.
>7. You start using smileys in your snail mail.
>8. You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a
> word processor.com
>9. You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.
>10. You can't call your mother...she doesn't have a modem.
>11. You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it
>again.
>12. You don't know what gender three of your closest friends are,
> because they have neutral screen names and you never bothered to ask.
>13. You move into a new house and decide to Netscape before you
>landscape.
>14. You tell the cab driver you live at
> "http://1000.edison.garden/house/brick.html"
>15. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.
>16. After reading this message, you immediately E-mail it to a friend.
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