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From the book
The Ingoldsby Legends
by the Rev. Richard H. Barham
Published by Richard Edward King,
88 Curtain Road,
London E.C.
Inscribed;-
Barbara Death
From Aunt Emma
March 6th 1921
(C) Copyright Tony Lance 1999
Distribute complete and free of charge to comply. 


Big Bertha Thing welfare

29th April 1999
Operations Manager,
The Benefits Agency, 

Dear Sirs,

Further to your letter of 28th April 1999, 
regarding a list of questions, on the possibility of my working at all. 

I will attempt to answer your questions, in order as listed in your letter. 

1.I am not working, I am just pottering arround on the internet. 
  I last registered for course work with the Open University in 
  1997. This would have involved 6 hours work per week. 
  I could only manage half-an-hour per day, so totally failed 
  to do the work or complete the course. Not even one homework 
  assignment was completed.
  In August 1997, I bought a second hand computer for 150 pounds 
  sterling, and was given free access to the Open University 
  computer along local telephone lines at a call charge of 
  1p per minute.
  Since that time, I managed to build up a body of correspondence, 
  within the limits of half-an-hour per day mental or physical work.
  In January 1999, this correspondence was transfered by me to my 
  web site; www.bertha.ndirect.co.uk(since disabled.) 
  I have to pay 14 pounds and 9p per month for this site. 

2.Nobody suggested it, it just happened. 
3.My doctor does not know that I have a web site. 
4.See answer 1 for description of my activities. 
  No job is being done, so no job description exists. 

5.No employer exists or payments have been recieved. 
6.I can think straight for half-an-hour per day. 
  The rest of the time is spent pottering arround. 
  I can do one side of A4 paper of mathematics 
  or computer work per day. 

7.On any day free of a major shopping expedition, 
  I can do half-an-hour of original work and 
  about an hour of copy typing at non-typist speeds. 

8.My principle interest is a 50 year scientific project, 
  which was started 30 years ago. 
  If I could spend 48 hours per week doing it I would. 
  However half-an-hour work and an hour pottering, 
  seems to be all I can manage and 
  at that not every day of the week.
  Due to my condition, I asked Mrs. Pam S...., 
  a fellow Open University student to be the project archivist 
  for my work on the Open University computer. 
  She agreed and kept the archive of the correspondence 
  which is now on my web site. This is both an unusual 
  request and an unusually generous service 
  to a fellow student on incapacity benefit. 

9.Zero income for as far as the eye can see. 
10.Not applicable, zero wages or income. 
11.August 1997 and is ongoing. 

I trust that the above will put the internet feeding frenzy 
of the newspaper hype into some perspective. 

Thank you,
Tony Lance
judemarie@big-bertha-thing.com


Big Bertha Thing corporate

1.  What happened to the guys on the most wanted list?
2.  Corporate America opened fire with an industrial
      strength denial of service attack.
3.  It was complete with worm virus.
4.  150K mailbox postings.
5.  Daily basis.
6.  Unlimited smtp mailboxes and names.
7.  Ownership of smtp mailbox provider.
8.  This is a proprietorial interest in Usenet newsgroup
     postings.
9.  Big Bertha is now on the list.
10. A sustainable defense would be nice.
11. When the guns fall silent, the battle will be over.
12. There were enough shells for 42 months, without
     recycling.

Big Bertha Thing binary

The defense is of course binary; the old one two.
You need two filters.
The first blocks mailbox entry and strips out the from
mailbox address, for disclosure. 
It uses mailbox address or sufix to select postings.
The second uses partial strings.
Any portion of the mailbox address or subject line to
select postings.
It flags them as deleted and moves them to the trashcan.
The trashcan auto-deletes before the mailbox fills up.
Lastly you need vacation auto-reply and a mailing list,
with an smtp mailbox.
The replies from auto reply tell you which mailboxes are
closed.
The mailing list replies confirms which mailboxes are open.

NB There may be another case with the same protaganist:-
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3e10cd57.0311261707.35b8cf51%40posting.google.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain