a) Send in a post about how great the album is and that you particularly love Mystery Mountain. This then leads to an interesting thread about feel-good
substances. Splendid.

b) Start an amazingly dull 'Best Album' compilation. People re-send their favorites to the list for weeks and weeks because they forgot to include solo projects. Somebody shows off by naming The Ballade album but in the end nobody really cares about the results, besides somebody has started a new one anyway!

c) Look at some pictures from CD inserts and talk about how dreamy the boys are. Especially in tight leather pants.

d) Say that JOURNEY was NOTHING without STEVE PERRY. Don't anyone DARE disagree with you, everybody has a right to an OPINION for gods sake. You're sick to DEATH of people slagging off people for having OPINIONS. Make sure that you type in several important words in UPPER CASE.

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Question 3. Somebody has asked a question regarding Journey and you know the answer. Do you:

a) Reply directly to that person , or if you think other people will be interested then neatly trim the original mail being careful not to include any unnecessary text, carefully highlight their question so it's obvious what the mail is about and provide
your own message.

b) Do a reply-all! Include the whole digest on your mail (it's only 450 lines after all) and while you're at it, why not include a 20 line signature, some base64 code ($£HHJK$J%H£$£K$££$£$£J$LK$J£$£LK$J) and make sure that your mail program attaches a copy of the message in HTML format. Don't actually answer the question though, just say something like 'me too'.

c) Who cares about the question- hasn't Jon got nice hair!

d) Tell the person asking the stupid question to stop asking stupid questions. This is a Journey list for gods sake. You're sick to death of people asking stupid questions! You subscribed to this list for Journey information and if people want to ask questions they can do it somewhere else!!!!

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Question 4 : You've attended a recent Vital Information concert and people have requested reviews of the show. Do you:

a) Send in an interesting story about the concert including some pleasant conversation that you had with Smitty.

b) Sample some live Arrival tracks and break them into twenty friendly-sized 10Mb WAV files then post them all to the list! It won't hurt will it....?

c) Talk about the good old days when Steve P. used to tour with the band and about how young and sexy the boys were. Dig out all of your old Journey posters and trace your finger over the beautiful faces. Fall asleep and dream about running in slow motion along a beach with Stevie. In tight pants, of course.

d) Get involved in a debate about an issue completely unrelated to the band. The more it involves religion, the better. Start accusing each other of attacking,
but at the same time making personal attacks back. Get all upset about personal comments. It gets quite silly after a while, so send in a really long mail about how
this is a Journey list and the subject should be taken off-line but in doing so make sure that you upset somebody else so that they can reply to the whole list
defending themselves and that they should have said that sort of thing in a private mail...etc. etc.

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Question 5 : You read a strange questionnaire thingy on the digest sent in by Char, and your reaction is:

a) It's obvious that she's not referring to any one person or one incident on this the list but is in fact making a humorous generalization about not only this list but other mailing lists. It's very funny and you decide to send Charity a crisp ten-dollar bill for
providing so much entertainment.

b) Reply to this post, including the whole questionnaire in your post without doing any trimming so it's included unnecessarily in future digests with the simple comment: "Uh...I answer mainly 'B'. What does that mean?"

c) You never really read the questionnaire anyway. You're too busy dreaming about the boys without shirts on. Besides, the questionnaire was made up by an Iowan, and all Iowans are stupid. ;)

d) Get extremely worked-up over the questionnaire. Start throwing things around the room and run outside into the street and starting beating the nearest human being with a rolled-up newspaper. Swear continuously for four minutes without repeating the same word and then call for an ambulance as you think you've just burst a blood vessel in your head.

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