Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site gatech.CSNET Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!spaf From: spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: Net.Bizzare's Murder Message-ID: <1930@gatech.CSNET> Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 15:32:04 EST Article-I.D.: gatech.1930 Posted: Sun Nov 10 15:32:04 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 20:06:44 EST References: <807@wdl1.UUCP> Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) Followup-To: net.flame Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech Lines: 47 In article <807@wdl1.UUCP> jrm@wdl1.UUCP writes: >The following is mail sent to Gene Spafford (gatech!spaf) in response >to his posting in net.announce regarding the murder of net.bizzarre (sp?). >I suggest that memorial services for net.bizzarre be held in net.general. > >************************************** >Check fuel. >Set intensity to KILL. >Open FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! >************************************** >All right, so you're not a net-fascist; you're a net-jerk. [...and further rabid barking deleted. -spaf] Ken Arnold sent me the following a week or two ago, and I find i very germane to postings like jrm's [posted with permission]: >There is this Indian holy man sitting under a tree, meditating, with >his begging bowl in front of him. As is the custom, many passing >people pay homage with some offering of food or wealth, according to >their means. > >One ruffian, however, sees the holy man, and stops to taunt and abuse >him. After some time of hurled insults, the holy man opens his eyes >and gently beckons the man closer. Puzzled, the rogue approaches. > >"If you bring me precious gold, and I do not accept it, whose gold is >it?" asked the wise man. > >"Why, mine of course! If you do not want my gold, then it is still >mine," ansered the rogue. > >"If you bring me lucious fruits as a gift, and I do not want them, to >whom do the fruits belong?" > >"Why, they are mine, of course," came the reply. > >"If you hurl insults at me," asked the holy man, " and I do not accept >them, to whom do they eventually return?" And he closed his eyes and >waited for the answer that never came. BTW, "gatech" no longer accepts or passes nut.flame, so I'm directing followups to that group. -- Gene "wedding done, thesis to go" Spafford The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ Relay.CS.NET uucp: ...!{akgua,decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf