Hello,

This is an invitation to join the lie2k group, an email group that I moderate at eGroups, a free, easy-to-use email group service. By joining this group, you'll be able to easily send messages to fellow group members using just one email address. eGroups also makes it easy to store photos and files, coordinate events and more.

Here's my introductory message for you:

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You are invited to participate in a discussion of the Y2k silliness propagated upon the species by pathetic, memetic doomers at my new eBoard at eGroups!

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TO JOIN THIS GROUP, simply choose ONE of these 2 options:

1) REPLY to this email by clicking "reply" in your email program

-OR-

2) Go to our site at http://www.egroups.com/invite/lie2k and click the "JOIN" button

If you do not wish to join the lie2k group, just ignore this invitation.

Regards,

Moderator, lie2k

SPECIAL NOTE FROM eGroups: Because eGroups values your privacy, it is a violation of our service rules for moderators to add subscribers to a group against their wishes. If you feel this has happened, please notify us at abuse@egroups.com

-- (pathetic@meme.doomer), June 20, 2000

Answers

Isn't this Andy Ray's new place?

Andy Ray moderates new Y2k board!

This is great.

On one side, we have Andy Ray, telling us that Yourdon and co. are to blame for Y2K. Yourdon profited by writing a book, and then set up an internet forum, to spread the FUD...

And on the other side, we have Andy Ray, who is writing a "post Y2K" book, and has now set up an internet forum...

LAMO... ROTF, LAMO...

LOL <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), June 20, 2000.

Teacher! Teacher! [Waving hand furiously]

Yes, Johnny?

Do you promise to disclose every rule for this new discussion group, prior to the first posting or email? And will you promise to never make the slightest change or amendment to these rules at any time after the first email is posted to the group?

And do you pledge your entire life's property and earnings against these promises. so that if you ever make the slightest deviation from the rules you enunciated at the beginning, the person who detects the deviation gets to live in your house, wear your clothes and spend your life savings as their own?

In my view, this is the only fair way to go about this enterprise. Don't you agree?

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), June 21, 2000.

Gee, what a swell idea! My life has been empty of late and I'd sure nuff like to fill it up with some worthless obsessive-compulsive activity like this. Sign me up, baby. Where can I send money?

-- (nemesis@awol.com), June 21, 2000.

A lot of people here no longer want to discuss the Y2K spin that was going on before the rollover. If Andy wants to have an e-mail group to discuss it, what does it matter to those of you who do not? No one is making you join, those who want to join have the right to, and to discuss it as much as they want to. Why do you feel the need to make fun of what he wants to do? Isn't that a rather childish thing to do?

I thought most of us had moved beyound that kind of behavior, into more mature discussions such as multible orgasms and underware choices. Get with it, grow up! and talk about the "important" things!

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), June 21, 2000.

...Like it's a mature thing to post messages day after day (after day, etc.) to show "pathetic, memetic doomers" how pathetic and memetic they are... Me, I like the idea of the Multiple Orgasm site.

Note to FactFinder: and now you know why I don't use a "real" e-mail address!

-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), June 21, 2000.