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Emailed Threats Less Crazy Than Snail Mail
SoyChemist writes "Psychologists at the University of Nebraska have read 300 threatening letters and 99 angry emails to members of Congress. They concluded that the authors of the electronic messages show less signs of serious mental illness, but they are more profane and disorganized. The report was published in the September issue of the Journal of Forensic Sciences."
do you insists on being such a bunch of pigshit-eating donkey wanking bastards? oh look - ponies!
Oh come on, the explanation is simple. You've got to be crazy to write a message to someone with postal mail. Welcome to the 21st century people, we have e-mail now!
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I once had this PC that a mate of mine built for me running Windows Millennium Edition. I had to install RealPlayer so I could watch BBC news videos, and I got my internet connection from AOL. Did it work? Did it ***k!
I spent ******ing hours on a premium rate number support line to get through to some Indian bloke who couldn't even speak proper English.
Did he help? No.
In the end I had to reformat the whole hard drive, install Ubuntu, configure the Wifi driver, find out where the DVD player codecs were hidden, read Kernighan and Ritchie, Donald Knuth AND fight off a legal battle with SCO.
Just so I could send a ******ing email.
You know what you IT blokes ought to do?
You ought to stop playing World of Warcraft and w***ing over porn all day and learn how to do your jobs.
C***s!
You suck.
Love,
The Associate
Someone hates these cans.
Good thing my IP is 127.0.0.1! I am untraceable!
There's an interesting concept. Recreate a forum like Slashdot by using only snail-mail. Every day, members would receive a packet in the mail with the latest updates, and it would be up to each person to cross-reference the posts to recreate the threads. How many users would waste a stamp to send in a "First Post!" response?
A post a day keeps productivity at bay.
Have you seen death threats by snail mail? They usually use cut out magazine letters otherwise they're written in BLOOD.
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+2 Troll is Slashdot's way of saying groupthink is confused
To sit down, find an envelope, and actually put 35 cents on the thing requires more forethought and commitment than firing off an email. And the more sane ones know to use a 41 cent stamp.
To say nothing of the time it would take them to look up current postal rates...
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
When I first read this I thought to myself "I wonder how much time people will waste to point out the current postal rate..." then I saw, there were already at least 5 corrections to your postage rate. We have to assume that each of those took at least 30 seconds to 1 minute to click "Reply to This" type in their response, post, wait for the preview, click ok. Anyway, I'm assuming that most /.ers have jobs and those all have to pay at least $14.00/hr on average which is about 23 cents/minute (gross) and we've already wasted at least 2.5 minutes here, (I don't have a job other than my son and he's sleeping right now) so that's about 57.5 cents in order to correct a 6 cent mistake. This is why they don't let IT guys do budgeting.
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That's what HTML e-mail and the Ransom font are for.
I can see it now...
Goatse trolling -- scratch-and-sniff style!
And it's obvious: the glue on envelopes causes mental illness.
Excuse me, I have to put on an eyepatch and commandeer a freighter now. I'm trying to slow down global warming.
Avast!
35 cents? Get thee to a post office! It costs 41 cents to mail a complaint to Congress! That can really add up over time; no wonder only the mentally ill use snail mail.
Enlarge your manhood. She will love you more. You will die in 7 days if you don't.
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Hi, my name is Courtney. I live in Ukraine. Marry me or the bitch dies.
Seriously, email threats creep me out.
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