Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site SCIRTP.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!rti-sel!SCIRTP!ned From: ned@SCIRTP.UUCP (Ned Robie) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Todd Jones, or idle hands/devils work, ect. Message-ID: <208@SCIRTP.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 19:52:54 EDT Article-I.D.: SCIRTP.208 Posted: Tue Jul 9 19:52:54 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 14:13:54 EDT References: <186@SCIRTP.UUCP> <261@greipa.UUCP> <200@SCIRTP.UUCP> <269@greipa.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: SCI Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 39 > In article <200@SCIRTP.UUCP> todd@SCIRTP.UUCP (Todd Jones) writes: > >> ||||| > >> || || <-- Who is this man, and why does he include so many > >> [ O-O ] lines in his followups? (and so many followups?) > >> \ ^ / > >> | _ | You going for 'single largest poster to net.flame' Todd? > >> |___| > > |O-O| <--- how's this? > > |_-_| -todd > > Todd. You're a jerk. (Yes, folks, he followed up on my article with > my entire article). What say we start sending this cretin our phone bills, eh? > > Jordan K. Hubbard > @ Genstar Rental Electronics. > Palo Alto, CA. > {pesnta, decwrl, dual, pyramid}!greipa!jordan First, your signature takes about 9 lines and I don't consider that short. Second, Todd only included that part of your posting that was necessary for the reader to understand his response, which just happened to be the entire posting. This conforms to net etiquette. Third, I work with Todd and he's not a jerk. Actually, he's a very nice person and is very humorous and intelligent. Fourth, writing a script that repeatedly sends termcap seems to me to be a prime example of "idle hands/devil's work." Fifth, are you any relation to L. Ron Hubbard?? Sixth, echo Jordan K. Hubbard>/dev/null Your turn, Todd... -- Ned Robie