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From: fish@ihu1g.UUCP (Bob Fishell)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Mangos are in season!! - (nf)
Message-ID: <414@ihu1g.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Jun-84 12:01:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  8 12:01:17 1984
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>> Look, a-holes, this newsgroup is for infectious, inflammatory articles,
>> not mindless drivel.  Anything I see in this newsgroup that is not
>> intended to be offensive offends me!
>
>But.......if this discussion offends you, hasn't it met your
>basic criterion, thus deserving to be here (:-))
>
>				Kevin Hunter
>				AT&T Consumer Products

NO, NO, A THOUSAND TIMES NO! LOOK AT THE WORDING, THE WORDING!  I SAID
"intended to be offensive."  NOTE THE KEYWORD, INTENDED, INTENT, INTENTION!
THERE IS NO PARADOX!  PEOPLE WHO INSIST ON POSTING "HARMLESS" ARTICLES DO
IT JUST BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T GOT THE *BALLS* TO REALLY LET GO AND FLAME,
CAUTION TO THE WINDS, DAMN THE COUNTER-FLAMES, FULL SPEED AHEAD. I FIND
THIS BEHAVIOR OFFENSIVE PRECISELY BECAUSE THE WIMPS WHO DO IT ARE REALLY
AFRAID OF OFFENDING ANYBODY.  WELL, LOOK, IT DOESN'T WORK.

Now, I subscribe to this newsgroup because I want to see and vent
invective.  I want to see things that really matter, like horses
crapping all over the bike trails, get hauled up in front of an 
angry electronic mob and barbecued.  But what do I get instead? I,
who have graciously made an ass of myself time after time in this
newsgroup, asking only that others do the same? MANGOES? WOMBATS?
YOU BET I'M OFFENDED! 

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                               Bob Fishell
                               ihnp4!ihu1g!fish