Article 1924 of alt.sysadmin.recovery: From: Tim Smith Newsgroups: alt.sysadmin.recovery Subject: Re: fuckwits with mail servers Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:35:17 +0000 (UTC) Organization: not recently Lines: 48 Sender: Tim Smith Approved: by Grobthar's Hammer <> Message-ID: <9laut5$8r1$1@hammerfield.cambridge.redhat.com> References: <8766bws9sx.fsf@localhost.efn.org> <3b73cb83$3$fuzhry$mr2ice@va.news.verio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hades.cambridge.redhat.com X-Trace: hammerfield.cambridge.redhat.com 997785317 9057 172.16.18.64 (14 Aug 2001 10:35:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@cambridge.redhat.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 10:35:17 +0000 (UTC) X-No-AHBOU: Yes X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.7-0.9.1 (i686)) Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen.news.verio.net!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!stl-feed.news.verio.net!news.cc.ukans.edu!newsxfer.eecs.umich.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!xara.net!gxn.net!cygnus.co.uk!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net alt.sysadmin.recovery:1924 Mike Andrews wrote: > Patrick R. Wade wrote: > : In article <3b73cb83$3$fuzhry$mr2ice@va.news.verio.net>, > : Shmuel (Seymour J.) > : Metz wrote: > :> > :>In , on 08/10/2001 > :> at 07:18 AM, devnull@hserus.net (Suresh Ramasubramanian) said: > :> > :>> Is it legal to strangle fuckwits with mailservers? > :> > :>I doubt that it's practical, even if it is legal. I suggest that you > :>bludgeon them with the server. If you really want to strangle them, > :>piano wire is much more flexible. > :> > : I think that "pressing" them (tying them down and stacking mailservers on > : them until they can't breathe and die) may also be legitimately described > : as strangling them... > Erm ... no, actually. "Strangle" has an implication of cutting off > air supply by closing the airway in the throat. Not, mind you, that > pressing is in any way inappropriate to the situation, it's just > not stranglng. Pedantry: Actually, "strangle" refers to directly restricting the blood supply to the brain by closing off the arteries in the neck. Cuts off the brain's oxygen supply quite directly. Typically done with the thumbs and bent arms, unless the operator has had practice in which case it may be done by several other means including such ways as using crossed arms and the tips ulnae. You have about 10 seconds. The word you are looking for is "choke" which refers to closing the airway, cutting off the oxygen supply to the brain indirectly by stopping any more from getting into the bloodstream. Typically done with the thumbs (again, by the uninitiated) but other favourites include the shins and hooking the fingers behind the collarbone and applying the choke with the ulna (damn useful bone, that). Because of the reserves of oxygen already in the lungs and the bloodstream this method is slower. You have almost a minute if you flop about effectively enough. This is UI for at least one of my hobbies. If it is UI for your job, I may want your job, depending on *why* it is UI... -- Tim Smith (tim@electronghost.co.uk) "Violence never solved anything permanently." -- Ghengis Khan