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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
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Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford)
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Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech
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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
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