s$ .d""b. impulse reality press no. 280 - adulthood's corrupt [-- $$ $$ $$ -- ------------------------------------------------------ --] $$ $$ "an open response to Advanced Test Equipment Corp" $$ $$ written by linear $$ $$ released 9/6/04 [-- $$ $$ ------ ------------------------------------------------------ --] A while ago, as many of you know, I used to run a website called United Phone Losers. I don't run that anymore, but today I found this email conversation from way back when. I thought I should share. I found it pretty funny. Here's some background: someone on the UPL (phonelosers.net) message board posted an image of some telephone test equiptment and a link to a specific site. A few days after that, I got this email (followed by my response)... -oOo-oOo-oOo-oOo- From: "Webmaster" To: Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 9:03 AM Subject: You are in Violation To Whom It May Concern, You are in violation of the Terms of Use set forth by Advanced Test Equipment Corp. In your forums, located at the following URL: http://phonelosers.net/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=154 , you are linked to and using a Copyright protected image. Also, you are displaying a link to the Advanced Test Equipment Corp Website which is also in violation of the Terms of Use set forth by Advanced Test Equipment Corp. We are requesting that you remove the image and hypertext link immediately and refrain from doing this in the future. Sincerely, Advanced Test Equipment Corp 10401 Roselle Street San Diego, CA 92121 Ph (858) 558-6500 Fax (858) 558-6570 http://www.atecorp.com ]===========[ REPLY ]===========[ From: To: , Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 11:09 PM Subject: Re: You are in Violation To Whom It May Concern, You are in violation of the Terms of Use set forth by United Phone Losers, Inc. On 2003 February 19 your company, using the email address webmaster@atecorp.com, emailed United Phone Losers, Inc at linear@phonelosers.net. This is in violation of the Terms of Use set forth by United Phone Losers, Inc. Branch of Terms of Use, a subdivision of the United Phone Losers, Inc. Department of Way Too Coolness (a division acting in conjuction with UPL Team Activism - further information can not be released as it would be a threat to UPL, Inc. internal security. Threatening internal security is a violation of UPL, Inc. Terms of Use). We are requesting that you refrain from emailing us in the future, and also, that you provide us with $30,000US and a monster truck. Sincerely, linear of United Phone Losers, Inc. United Phone Losers, Inc. Branch of Terms of Use Subdivision of United Phone Losers, Inc. Department of Way Too Coolness http://www.phonelosers.net -oOo-oOo-oOo-oOo- They never sent me another email. Unfortunately, though, I never got my $30,000 or Monster Truck. Awh well. [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] http://www.impulsereality.com [-------------------------------------------------------------------------] permission is granted to spread material within this text document freely. we kindly ask that you properly credit it's author(s) for their hard work! all rights are retained by the author(s), respectively .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. | | | FOR IMPORTANT, UP-TO-DATE TEXT SCENE NEWS, VISIT... | | http://www.textscene.com | | | | THE OLD WORLD IS BEHIND YOU. | | | `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'