[conspire] Something hilarious happened in Internet Security???

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Nick Moffitt (nick at zork.net):

> I remember you telling me this story some time around 1997 or so, and
> in my head I always imagined a dot-matrix printer printing a
> syslog-style message for each tripped alarm as another dedicated warm
> body bounced off of the security apparatus.  
> 
> To this day I've imagined it like a sort of human-scale bug zapper:
> *GNNNERRRRK-CHK'T* "Wow John, that was a big'un this time!"

It's a great bit of imagery.  

Obviously it was a long time ago, but my rather fallible memory suggests
that the individual security-incident sheafs were each written in
longhand by someone using a ballpoint pen.

But I like your version.