As usual I am late sending out this magazine. Another Tuesday. Allthe contributors wrote in time, but the Editor was too tired to even botherturning on the computer. Colin did a good thing in changing the signaturefile to reflect that Tuesday has gained more popularity in distribution thana Monday.
Some poor guy I work with, Hammed Malik (you might remember him fromthe letters he sends in to CoN) told me two
As usual I am late sending out this magazine. Another Tuesday. All the contributors wrote in time, but the Editor was too tired to even bother turning on the computer. Colin did a good thing in changing the signature file to reflect that Tuesday has gained more popularity in distribution than a Monday.
Some poor guy I work with, Hammed Malik (you might remember him from the letters he sends in to CoN) told me two cute stories. One about this old guy with a not-so-bad looking girl by his side that almost knocked him out. The other story is about George Bush who wants to skydive inside a stadium on the Fourth of July. Afraid that he might forget, he found his mailbox full of "friendly" reminders to write the two articles that were sent every two minutes.
He said something along the lines of "cease or die" and started growling and breaking things. How odd.
Bad news as well for this exciting week, readers are dropping life flies. Either accounts are disappearing or they are unsubscribing. I guess this is the effect of summer. Uncle CoN needs you! Send CoN to your friends and family and invite them to subscribe to us. After all, what’s the point of having a zine, if no one bothers to read what you write?
Also, apologies for last week. We were supposed to finally go online with CoN's new pages, but the server was down. Actually, to be correct, the server was up, but thanks to a new router poorly programmed byICAN.NET (The people that bought Internex Online) it was impossible to access it. If you wrote e-mail to us, we probably did not get it. As for our website, we'll have to find another day when we are not busy and we can upload the whole thing.
Here is to the end of another issue, but before I leave you with some exciting news (relatively old but still interesting) about Bill Gates, click on reply and let us know what you think of CoN and what you'll like to see in the future. Not that anybody is going to do that anyway.
Gates Stalker Captured
A man who threatened Microsoft Chair Bill Gates via snail mail has been arrested by the FBI.
Adam Quinn Pletcher, 21, of Chicago, Illinois, attempted to extort $5million from Gates, threatening to kill Gates and his wife Melinda if he was not paid.
Microsoft Security contacted the FBI, who then posed as Gates on "Net Girl, “a dating service on America-Online. The exchange of money was supposed to be arranged through the service. The FBI soon tracked down Pletcher after he mailed Microsoft a disk containing information that Gates was meant to use to further contact the stalker.
This is not Pletcher's first brush with the law--the Illinois Attorney General’s Office alleges he also ran a bogus auto brokerage business via the Internet.
The FBI says that Gates was never in any serious danger, and that Pletcherwas carrying out a "fantasy." Pletcher now faces a variety of felony charges.
cute stories. One about thisold guy with a not-so-bad looking girl by his side that almost knocked himout. The other story is about George Bush who wants to skydive inside astadium on the Fourth of July. Afraid that he might forget, he found hismailbox full of "friendly" reminders to write the two articles that weresent every two minutes.He said something along the lines of "cease or die" and started growling andbreaking things. How odd.
Bad news as well for this exciting week, readers are dropping lifeflies. Either accounts are disappearing or they are unsubscribing. I guessthis is the effect of summer. Uncle CoN needs you! Send CoN to yourfriends and family and invite them to subscribe to us. After all, what'sthe point of having a zine, if no one bothers to read what you write?
Also, apologies for last week. We were supposed to finally goonline with CoN's new pages, but the server was down. Actually, to becorrect, the server was up, but thanks to a new router poorly programmed byICAN.NET (The people that bought Internex Online) it was impossible toaccess it. If you wrote e-mail to us, we probably did not get it. As forour website, we'll have to find another day when we are not busy and we canupload the whole thing.
Here is to the end of another issue, but before I leave you withsome exciting news (relatively old but still interesting) about Bill Gates,click on reply and let us know what you think of CoN and what you'll like tosee in the future. Not that anybody is going to do that anyway.
Gates Stalker Captured
A man who threatened Microsoft Chair Bill Gates via snail mail has beenarrested by the FBI.
Adam Quinn Pletcher, 21, of Chicago, Illinois, attempted to extort $5million from Gates, threatening to kill Gates and his wife Melinda if he wasnot paid.
Microsoft Security contacted the FBI, who then posed as Gates on "NetGirl,"a dating service on America-Online. The exchange of money was supposed to bearranged through the service. The FBI soon tracked down Pletcher after hemailed Microsoft a disk containing information that Gates was meant to useto further contact the stalker.
This is not Pletcher's first brush with the law--the Illinois AttorneyGeneral's Office alleges he also ran a bogus auto brokerage business via theInternet.
The FBI says that Gates was never in any serious danger, and that Pletcherwas carrying out a "fantasy." Pletcher now faces a variety of felony charges.
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