Selected-By: Christophe Pettus The Usenet Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Mighty Oracle, seer of all, knower of even more, and groper of Lisa, > please answer my query: > > When will Kris have E-Mail? And in response, thus spake the Oracle: } January 1st, 2001: Kris, aka 'Christ', aka 'The Messiah', obtains an } e-mail account with North-America On Line. } } January 2nd, 2001: Christ crossposts 'Second Coming of Christ! Repent } or Burn in Hell, Sinners!' to all 20,000 newsgroups. } } January 3rd, 2001: Christ recieves the first of a torrent of indignant } flames, including 982 megs of core dumps from } alt.atheism. Even more flames are posted to the } groups, and since most posters neglect to edit the } newsgroups line, or clip the quote to the part they } respond to, each group is flooded with an average of } one million 400-line messages. Participants in the } Longest Thread Ever complain about all the crap } flooding the net. } } January 20th, 2001: The flamewar ends as the last node bursts into } flames from an overheated hard drive. The latest } predictors of the immenent death of the net gloat. } } February 1st, 2001: The phone bills arrive. ATT acquires 99.8% of the } world's money supply, thus achieving at last their } goal of world domination. All employees of Sprint } and MCI are nailed to telephone poles. } } February 11th, 2001: The Christian underground collapses when Christ } forgives ATT. ATT has him shot before he can } change his mind. } } February 15th, 2001: Christ returns from the grave long enough to } promise a a third coming in a thousand years, } triggering a massive wave of suicides. } } You owe the Oracle a cancelbot.