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I remember this meme format from Slashdot comments back in 2002ish for anti-spam solutions - its not meant to be printed out - the OP simply forgot to fill the relevant checkboxes for this particular news story.

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It goes back all the way to 90's Usenet, as a memetic format for commonplace rebuttals. Possibly one of the most longstanding pieces of Net culture!

Thank you for the correction, I didn’t know it was that old

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