Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 52917
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2009/4/27-5/5 [Computer/SW/Languages/JavaScript, Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:52917 Activity:kinda low
4/27    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8023341.stm
        SCOTUS upholds FCC's zero-tolerance obscenity policy.

        4/27    Nice:
        For all you crusties out there itching to come back and troll with
        wall and motd, but whose accounts are still sorried from a few years
        back, I'd like to remind you that it's not hard to un-sorry your
        account. We just need some way to connect you to your name, to make
        sure we're reactivating the accounts for the right person. A scan/
        photo of your old student ID, or a driver's license will suffice, or
        anything stronger if you really want to. It would also be nice to have
        a timeframe for when you signed up, as an additional sanity check,
        though it's not required.

        Alumni, we want you back!
        Andrew Toulouse
        CSUA President
        \_ translation: also don't forget to DONATE to poor students!
        \_ is there an alumni mailing list we should be on for announcements
           like this and the bbq?
           \_ This was an email I sent to announce@csua which an alumni kindly
              reposted to motd. Perhaps your .forward is out of date, or you
              requested to be removed from announce@csua. We don't keep an
              alumni mailing list, since it'd be too hard to track, and since we
          have a record of members with somewhat ambiguous enrollment statuses
          ;).
              have a record of members with somewhat ambiguous enrollment
              alumni mailing list, since it'd be too hard to track, and since
              we have a record of members with somewhat ambiguous enrollment
              statuses ;).
              P.S. I usually sign my posts on motd with --t.
              --t
              \_ Is that pretentious or merely annoying?
             \_ Dunno. You sound like an expert on annoying. I have my reasons
                for doing it. --t
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news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8023341.stm
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