From: tom@barratry.law.cornell.edu (Thomas R. Bruce) Newsgroups: rec.woodworking Subject: Announce:OLDTOOLS listserv list Date: 19 Dec 1995 12:04:57 GMT Organization: Cornell University Message-ID: <4b69p9$e65@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> PRESENTED FOR YOUR DELECTATION AND AMUSEMENT ************************************************************* OLDTOOLS: a listserv for those of the Neanderthal Persuasion ************************************************************* featuring: +HANDTOOL DROOLS AND INFORMATION +ADVANCED NEANDER-TECHNIQUES +MORE THAN YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT MITER BOXES AND HANDPLANES +FLIGHTS OF FANCY, and +FEATS OF DERRING-DO by that same CHARMING and ADORABLE crew of NEANDERGALOOTS you've come to KNOW and LOVE in the pages of REC.NORM. We endeavour to give SATISFACTION, EDIFICATION, and ENLIGHTENMENT to those who have a BURNING INTEREST in OLD TOOLS, RESTORATION, TRADITIONAL WOODCRAFT and the elusive problems of HOW THEM OLD DUDES DID IT, and advise our LOYAL ADMIRERS in REC.NORM that this is NOT a MASS DEPARTURE but is instead ANOTHER LOCALE in which to VENT at greater length than is acceptable to PERSONS OF QUALITY in that CROWDED VENUE. Potential LURKERS should know that a HYPERMAIL ARCHIVE of the list exists at http://www.law.cornell.edu/listservs/oldtools/ and will be OF THE GREATEST UTILITY to them, inasmuch as they will be SPARED the INDIGNITIES of SUBSCRIPTION. Indeed, we would PREFER that they use it, as they would LIGHTEN the NOT-INCONSIDERABLE BURDENS placed upon our SERVERS. Those HARDIER SOULS who wish to PARTICIPATE in this new FORUM are advised to send a communique via ELECTRONIC MAIL to: listserv@listserv.law.cornell.edu containing the message SUBSCRIBE OLDTOOLS Your Full Name The PUBLIC is ADVISED that placing these words in the BODY of the MESSAGE rather than in its subject line will be MOST EFFECTIVE, and that substituting your ACTUAL NAME for the string "Your Full Name" will PREVENT RIDICULE and FORESTALL the SINGING OF THE NEW YANKEE WORKSHOP THEME on your PERSONAL TELEPHONIC APPARATUS at early hours of the morning by UNKNOWN PERSONS OF LOW DEGREE. ALL are WELCOME and ENCOURAGED to ATTEND by RINGMASTERS BRUCE BRUCE and PADDY O'DEEN. ROUTAHS, BELT-SANDAHS, other TOOLS POWERED in the manner of MR. EDISON'S INVENTIONS, and VOCAL CHRONOMETRIC DEVICES should be CHECKED at the DOOR. -- +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ | Thomas R. Bruce trb2@cornell.edu | | Cornell Law School Vox: 607-255-1221 | | Ithaca, NY 14853 | | "When I went to Cornell I became a different person." | | -- Screen goddess Mary Woronov, former Warhol Whip Dancer and | | star of "Rock 'n'Roll High School","Eating Raoul", etc. | +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+