Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site luke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!timeinc!phri!pesnta!hplabs!oliveb!bene!luke!steven From: steven@luke.UUCP (Steven List) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Scott Turner and motss Message-ID: <245@luke.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Jun-85 13:26:44 EDT Article-I.D.: luke.245 Posted: Mon Jun 24 13:26:44 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 07:06:09 EDT Reply-To: steven@luke.UUCP (Steven List) Organization: Uncle Bene's Farm Lines: 47 Due to the signature on the following, I cannot reply to the sender. Since the subject matter relates to something posted and the manner of reply indicates a public rather than private concern, I will reply here in net.flame. >Date: 21 Jun 1985 07:45-CST >Subject: Re: Juvenile use of Followup-To header >To: ihnp4!sun!bene!luke!steven%uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA >Message-Id: <488205943/rossen@fang> > >/* Written 3:13 pm Jun 16, 1985 by steven@luke.UUCP in ccvaxa:net.flame */ >> Hey Scott? Call a hospital NOW! If you are involved with a woman >> (which I seriously doubt) or motss (more likely), . . . >---------- >more likely? Why? >---------- >> People like Alex and Scott change the net from a wonderful window on >> the world to a peephole into an outhouse. >---------- >True, but the above comment was at least unnecessary and pretty damn >obnoxious. Perhaps you can tell us what makes you think that Scott's being a >first-class jackass makes him more likely to be homosexual. >--- >Ken Rossen -- Champaign-Urbana, IL; moving to Cambridge, MA >NO REPLIES TO HEADER ADDRESS ... ACCOUNT DISAPPEARS 6/22/85! >mail received at: {decvax,ucbvax,sun}!ihnp4!wlcrjs!krossen My reference to a MOTSS being more likely is based on Scott's obvious hostility toward and fear of members of the OPPOSITE sex. I hadn't realized what an insult it would be to homosexuals to suggest that Scott would be one of them. I did not, by any means, mean to cast any slurs at homosexuals. I did mean to suggest that Scott is probably incapable of maintaining a healthy ongoing relationship with a woman. Obviously, Ken is unduly sensitive in this subject. Ken - yes, I think you too are a jackass. Why did you mail me your comments and then say "... you can tell us..."? Are you afraid of dealing with this issue publicly? It's a great parting shot if you're not going to be on the net anymore. In any event, if I insulted any homosexuals on the net with my posting, that was not my intent. If I insulted Scott... -- *** * Steven List @ Benetics Corporation, Mt. View, CA * {cdp,greipa,idi,oliveb,sun,tolerant}!bene!luke!steven ***