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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 09:06:10 -0500
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
From: s_lindblom@co*.co* (Steve Lindblom)
Subject: Re: Oxygen- Congrats, Chuck!
Chuck,

I like a bit of subtle humor here, or well-constructed troll, as much as
anyone, especially when someone else misses the joke and goes sputtering
into an indignant response. Like when Ted zings G3, and G3 goes misses the
humor and goe into a rant. Or when someone takes the "just fill with water
travel weights" seriously and posts a lengthy explanation on the physics of
how it wouldn't work.
So it is with some embarassment that it suddenly dawns on me  that I have
been caught and nailed with your equisite oxy hazards/valuejet troll. Not
only did I believe the foolish thing, I went ahead, just like all the other
sucker fish I've been chuckling at over the years, and posted an indignant
rebuttal.
Great troll - you got me good.

In my defense, I suppose I should say that, while cunningly wrought, your
troll was really no more ridiculous that some of many other equally
irrelevent tales that have been told to me, in all seriousness, in an
attempt to document the horrors of O2. And that I wasn't the only one to be
caught - it seemed to get Cobb, and a few more as well.

Nice work!


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