Initially compiled by squelch at slack.net; substantially expanded and revised by jwgh at earthlink.net.
Gas is a mailing list. Most of the subscribers are present or former employees of a certain Internet company, although not all are.
It's pretty free-form--see the last section for some sample topics of discussion. A certain amount of time is spent insulting each other. Try not to be too boring.
A tricky question, and one I can't really answer. Basically someone requests to be added. If I know them myself I'll either add them or not based on my knowledge of them. If I don't know them I'll send a note to the mailing list asking if anyone knows this person and if they should be added. I then act as seems prudent.
Oh my yes.
At one time there were five or six mailing lists around that had substantially the same subscribers and were intended for substantially the same purpose. Most of them are either gone or have gone mostly silent. I believe that a majordomo-hosted mailing list named bluespark@gonif.com is still around. It's been pretty quiet, but maybe you can liven things up.
Basically, you send mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following command in the body of the message:
SUBSCRIBE GAS-LOVERS Firstname Lastname
Substitute your first and last names for Firstname and Lastname. (Duh.)
The request will be forwarded to the current mailing list owner, who will act as described in section 1.3.
Send mail to the listowner at GAS-LOVERS-request@home.ease.lsoft.com explaining your perdicament. Note that the listowner may not manage the mailing list from his or her work account and so may not get to your request until later that day.
You can't. Don't try it. The listowner will make his or her own determinations of who should be on gas. (If he or she asks you for advice that's another matter of course.)
This has not happened yet, and in general it's pretty difficult to get kicked off gas (assuming you made it through the door in the first place). Generally speaking, if people start leaving the mailing list because of your behavior the listowner will start considering this possibility.
If you're a member of gas, you can find out by sending a message to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with REVIEW GAS-LOVERS in the body of the message.
If you're not a member of gas, then it's basically none of your business.
Rob's the king of gas. The mailing list was originally created for him. He is not currently subscribed, but his spirit lives on, to a greater or lesser extent. I think he's an out of work proctologist.
Cheng is the pope of gas. He's a DBA. He writes good movie reviews that often contain major spoilers.
Queen of gas. Systems engineer. Banjo player. DJ. Listowner of a previous incarnation of this mailing list. Truly, a man for all seasons. The only person I know who was kicked out of Canada.
At the time I write this, squelch is not technically a member of gas, but his truth goes marching on.
He's the current listowner of gas. He was elected gas saint for using a public forum to tell off a founding member of the company he worked for. He was not fired.
Some mug shots are online, as is a short guide on how to pronounce jwgh
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At this point, I am authorized to neither confirm nor deny the rumors that we are all cyborgs sent to confuse and distract you. Likewise, we may or may not be puppets; speculation as to who the puppetmaster might be are of course completely premature.
Simalicrums desiring to get their own listing in this section of the FAQ should psychicly contact me. If there are too many sunspots to allow this, then drop me a line.
Probably you. Can you smell it? It was probably the Chicken McNuggets that did it.
Try Astor Place Haircutters. The skills of your barber are directly proportional to the amount of nudie pictures taped up to his mirror.
You betcha.
For some, it is a mere biological imperitive; others raise it to the level of an art form.
What was the question again?
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