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G6TVA > WOEFUL 04.08.03 22:47l 169 Lines 7380 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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From: G6TVA@GB7YKS.#19.GBR.EU
To : WOEFUL@WW
Hi All,
It has been brought to my attention about a bulletin send out from
one of my two mailbox's GB7YKS by VK6JZ to HUMOUR@WW
In this message George VK6JZ included a possible offending word.
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>From : VK6JZ
To : HUMOUR@WW
Type/Status : B$
Date/Time : 21-Jul 09:04
Bid : D10105VK6JZ
Message # : 87669
Title : OZ
WE, the people of the broad brown land of Oz, wish to be recognised as a
free nation of blokes, sheilas and the occasional w----r. We come from
many lands (although a few too many of us come from New Zealand) and
although we live in the best country in the world, we reserve the right to
bitch and moan about it whenever we bloody like.
We are One Nation but we're divided into many States.
Firstly, there's Victoria, named after a queen who didn't believe in
lesbians. Victoria is the realm of Massimo turtlenecks, cafe latte, grand
final day and big horse races. Its capital is Melbourne, whose chief
marketing pitch is that "it's liveable". At least that's what they think.
The rest of us think it is too bloody cold and wet.
Next, there's NSW, the realm of pastel shorts, macchiato with sugar, thin
books read quickly and millions of dancing queens. Its capital, Sydney has
more queens than any other city in the world and is proud of it. Its
mascots are Bondi lifesavers who pull their Speedos up their cracks to
keep the left and right sides of their brains separate.
Down south we have Tasmania, a State based on the notion that the family
that bonks together stays together. In Tassie, everyone gets an extra
chromosome at conception. Maps of the State bring smiles to the stern
faces. It holds the world record for a single mass shooting, which the
Yanks can't seem to beat no matter how often they try.
South Australia is the province of half-decent reds, a festival of
foreigners and bizarre murders. SA is the state of innovation, where else
can you so effectively reuse country bank vaults and barrels as in
Snowtown, just out of Adelaide(also named after a queen). They had the
Grand Prix, but lost it when the views of Adelaide sent the Formula One
drivers to sleep at the wheel.
Western Australia is too far from anywhere to be relevant. It's main claim
to fame is that it doesn't have daylight saving because if it did all the
men would get erections on the bus on the way to work. WA was the last
state to stop importing convicts and many of them still work there in the
government and business.
The Northern Territory is the red heart of our land. Outback plains,
sheep stations the size of Europe, Kangaroos, Jackaroos, Emus, Uluru and
dusty kids with big smiles. It also has the highest beer consumption of
anywhere on the planet and its creek beds have the highest aluminium
content of anywhere too. Although the Territory is the centre piece of our
national culture, few of us live there and the rest prefer to fly over it
on our way to Bali.
And there's Queensland. While any mention of God seems silly in a document
defining a nation of half-arsed sceptics, it is worth noting that God
probably made Queensland as it's beautiful one day and perfect the next??
Why he filled it with dickheads remains a mystery.
Oh yes and then there's Canberra. The least said the better.
We, the citizens of Oz, are united by Highways, whose treacherous twists
and turns kill more of us each year than murderers.
We are united in our lust for international recognition, so desperate for
praise we leap in joy when a rag tag gaggle of corrupt IOC officials tells
us Sydney is better than Beijing.
We are united by a democracy so flawed that a political party, albeit a
redneck gun-toting one, can get a million votes and still not win one seat
in Federal Parliament.
Not that we're whingeing, we leave that to our Pommy immigrants. We want
to make "no worries mate" our national phrase, "she'll be right mate" our
national attitude and "Waltzing Matilda" our national anthem (So what if
it's about a sheep-stealing crim who commits suicide).
We love sport so much our news readers can read the death toll from a
sailing race and still tell us who's winning. And we're the best in the
world at all the sports that count, like cricket, netball, rugby, AFL,
roo-shooting, two-up and horse racing. We also have the biggest rock, the
tastiest pies, and the worst-dressed Olympians in the known universe.
We shoot, we root, we vote.
We are girt by sea and pissed by lunchtime.
Even though we might seem a racist, closed-minded, sports-obsessed little
people, at least we feel better for it.
You are, I am, we are Australian.
George........
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Message timed: 17:03 on 2003-Jul-21
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Now this has been brought to my attention I will contact George VK6JZ and
deal with this between us.
I would like to say sorry to anyone including Bob VK6BE who has been
blamed for this possible offending word.
Even though im one of the two people. Only two peole are to blame for this
offending bulletin. Myself Dave G6TVA as SysOp @ GB7YKS and George VK6JZ
the sending station.
It was felt, as the message was sent to Humour the decision was made,
taking the message context into consideration that the ofending word was
not intended to be abusive, and As I am a sysop of 2 mailboxes and
regularly accused of censorship and interfering with the smooth flow of
mail, It was felt that it was an acceptable risk, that others would read
the message in the same context as it was intended, Obviously Not!.
Action has now be taken to prevent any messages that MAY cause offence,
irrelevant of the context it was intended, from either of my two mailbox's
in the future.
Best Wishes . de . Dave G6TVA/M3TVA (SysOp) @ GB7SYP, GB7YKS also GB7YDX
24Hr Telnet Access into GB7SYP (Mailbox) :- 62.49.59.169:6200 (Fixed I.P)
24hr Telnet Access into GB7YKS (Mailbox) :- 62.49.59.169:6300 (Fixed I.P)
24hr Telnet Access into GB7YDX (Dx-Cluster) 80.177.166.254:7300 (Fixed)
Web:- http://www.gb7syp.net - http://www.gb7yks.net - http://gb7ydx.net
Email:- dave.g6tva@gb7syp.net dave.g6tva@gb7yks.net dave.g6tva@gb7ydx.net
Message timed: 21:32 on 04-Aug-2003
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