Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uflorida!novavax!maddoxt From: maddoxt@novavax.UUCP (Thomas Maddox) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Artificial Intelligence - Not Insecurity Complexes Message-ID: <829@novavax.UUCP> Date: 1 Dec 88 02:35:20 GMT References: <2057@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> Reply-To: maddoxt@novavax.UUCP (Thomas Maddox) Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Lines: 18 In article <2057@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk nick@cs.hw.ac.uk (Nick Taylor) writes: |I was . . . amazed by |the recent tirade of abuse directed at Gilbert Cockton by Thomas Maddox. |Have I missed some of Gilbert's postings? Surely his innocuous aside on |slavery could not have provoked such a reaction all on its own? Now Gordon |Banks has added his two-penny worth of drivel. Don't worry though chaps, |Britain might not be a big powerful country any more but it IS populated by |a people that can remember how to BE big about things and refrain from |throwing a fit at the slightest criticism or mickey-taking. I trust that |subsequent postings to this newsgroup will demonstrate that the US has its |fair share of big people too! Maybe a new newsgroup is called for - |talk.littlepeople. Or maybe another one called thick.idiots.defending.cockton. Is this an example of what you call being big about things? You refer to Gordon Banks's posting as drivel and mine as a tirade and a fit; you then classify us both as little people. Glad you didn't take offense, you twit.