> Welcome to Usenet no rules apply. This is USENET.

The un-written rules:

1: always use a cryptic screen name to hide behind. Make it sound old, so no one knows your 12 years old.

2: Try to cram as many typos into one incomplete sentence as you can.

3: Never respond on topic.

4: the first amendment only applies to statements we all like to hear. please keep controversial topics away as they may be important.

5: if someone posts a question, make sure and flame them for bad spelling and poor grammar, and never answer their question.

6: always top-post, and never clean the text.

7: try to keep your statements as vague as you can. Someone else can fill in the details for you.

8: if you are debating on Usenet. there is  no need to prove your side, since you are right. simply state that the other person is wrong. There is no need to post facts, or to clarify why they are wrong. They can figure it out.

9: Usenet is 100% FACT. everything posted on Usenet can be thought of as 100% accurate, and does not need to be verified.

Anyone else out there care to add to the list?  ;-)

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>8: if you are debating on Usenet. there is  no need to prove your side, since you are right. simply state that the other person is wrong. There is no need to post facts, or to clarify why they are wrong. They can figure it out.

If you totally disagree with the other side, don't argue, just call the poster a Moron, a troll, or use some obscene words. The nastier the
better.

Røbert M 

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I'd like to add:

10: The guy who the most is the guy you can trust to be most accurate. He's
sure to have an answer to every question to share his vast knowledge as a
public service. (It isn't just that he has no life and spends all day
posting on Usenet.)

Mark

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10: Close every post with the threat of a class action suit.

K3SLS

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11: Please feed the trolls.

Peterbilt

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You guys are just sayin' all that cause it's true!!!

Gator

>>See Rule #9.  :)

O/Siris

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