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quoted 4 lines Just a note to everyone going crazy about the word that the Masks are

>Just a note to everyone going crazy about the word that the Masks are >getting re:released - "mark s-walker" pulled of a joke rather out of >spirits. But I have to admit that it was a rather effective way of losing >all and total credibility.

well it brightened up my day ;) just very funny to see everyone getting so bloody excited! there's more to life than limited edition vinyl__

quoted 3 lines Just a note to everyone going crazy about the word that the Masks are

> >Just a note to everyone going crazy about the word that the Masks are > >getting re:released - "mark s-walker" pulled of a joke rather out of > >spirits.

quoted 2 lines well it brightened up my day ;)

> well it brightened up my day ;) > just very funny to see everyone getting so bloody excited!

i didn't find it at all funny. not amusing whatsoever. and i don't even remotely like the mask records! just an infantile prank which we've all seen many times before

quoted 1 line there's more to life than limited edition vinyl__

> there's more to life than limited edition vinyl__

then get out of my face and live this amazing life then. spare us the 'sad cunt' crap, please... i suppose the wonderful sale then withdrawal of qchastic/ig88 was some figment of your imagination too. seems you're the only one getting excited by limited edition vinyl. <waves>

On Fri, 22 May 1998 14:55:34 +0000, you wrote:

quoted 2 lines well it brightened up my day ;)

>well it brightened up my day ;) >just very funny to see everyone getting so bloody excited!

Oh yeah, hilarious. Now, I don't mind the odd joke or two, but this one was just a bit badly timed. As soon as Skam decide to release new vinyl from Jega, Gescom and Mask3, we see a message in the same newsgroup suggesting that Mask1 and Mask2 are being re-issued. It's not surprising that some people are going to believe your 'joke'. I've ordered my new Skam vinyl, but at the same time I asked my supplier to try and get hold of the (non-existant) Mask reissues. Now they're probably wasting time, making phone calls, trying to acquire stuff that doesn't exist. At the end of the day, it's no big deal, but you've got to realise that when there's absolutely nothing to differentiate between your wind-up and a genuine piece of news, you're doing something wrong. The best wind-ups always have some sort of accompanying clue, no matter how cryptic. The majority of people on this list don't know one another -- we're all pretty much anonymous. In the past, we've relied on anonymous people to supply us with genuine news. If you're going to start a trend of anonymous people posting up wind-ups, then don't be surprised if you're then subsequently regarded as an infantile troll. I've nothing against you -- your wind up didn't do me any damage, but just consider the possibility that some people *will* take notices such as yours at face value. /\/)ark