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From: steven@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: My OFFENSIVE Postings
Message-ID: <249@luke.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 18:25:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: luke.249
Posted: Mon Jun 24 18:25:16 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 07:07:02 EDT
References: <1666@amdahl.UUCP> <6081@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Reply-To: steven@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Organization: Uncle Bene's Farm
Lines: 40
Keywords: STUPID MISTAKE, APOLOGY, FIRING SQUAD
Summary: 

In article <6081@ucla-cs.ARPA> alex@ucla-cs.UUCP (Mud) writes:
>I'm SORRY about changing the F*CKING followup lines.  OK?  Doing so
>was not intended to cause any harm, so I'm SORRY if it did.  Besides,
>look on the bright side.  Now aren't more people checking their
>followup lines before they post?

I missed that wonderful part.  THANK YOU, Alex, for helping to alert us
to the danger of bad followups!  You just keep on digging, and we'll
look down and say hi once in a while.

>But Gordon, isn't this America, the land of the free?  And isn't net.flame
>for flaming?

Yes, and you're just getting your fair share.

>And besides, it should be pretty obvious when someone is being serious
>and when they aren't.
[removal of abuse]

If you can read (I believe you can since you manage to misdirect all
your responses), you should have read things like chuqui@nsc's etiquette
document and silver@csu-cs's Ten Commandments for USENET.  They include
things like the word "think".  There are specific comments about the
fact that people can't possibly know your intent from your words, hence
the invention of the "smily face".  You really are a jerk.

I read this "apology", and I'm sorry that I did.  You have managed to
redefine the word to mean "attack in an obnoxious fashion under the
false flag of truce".  If you want to apologize, do it without attacking
those who have justified complaint against you.  Or is it just too
damned hard to admit that you were a jackass again?

Once again, I would petition my fellow net.landers to banish you from
the net.  You have just confirmed my feeling.  You are an eyesore, and
I'd like to miss you.  Soon.
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