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From: scott@attcan.UUCP (Scott MacQuarrie)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Internationalist posturings.
Summary: Proof Positive that the UGLY AMERICAN is
	 STILL WITH US
Message-ID: <3522@vpk4.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 88 00:30:24 GMT
References: <1969@garth.UUCP> <7921@dasys1.UUCP> <2043@garth.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Canada Inc., Toronto
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In article <2043@garth.UUCP>, smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) writes:
> >In article <7921@dasys1.UUCP> tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
> >>... It is considered *extremely* impolite to take private
> >>netmail messages from other users and repost them publicly in news
> >>articles, without first obtaining the authors' permission.
> >
> >It is also a violation of copyright.  When somebody mails you a letter
> >(the law was written with physical letters in mind, but almost certainly
> 
> Whereas mailing Canadian jingoism instead of posting it is merely cowardice.
> -- 
>                                                    -- s m ryan

Mr. Ryan,

I have had significant dealings with Americans from all parts of the USA and 
have found them to be, for the most part, extremely likable people. You,
unfortunatly, are proof positive that the UGLY american is still in existance.
Not only are you bombastic and offensive, you are also unable to use the
english language correctly.

No one has displayed any jingoism in this discussion of the US space program/
NASA except yourself. Most of the comments are simply an honest and open
discussion of the strenghts and weakness of NASA and it's management (or
lack thereof). The other parts of this newsgroup (relating to you) are 
a reaction to your continous stream of boorish comments. I have seen little
in anyone's mail (including the private mail that you seem to like to publish),
in which any Canadian is attempting to show that Canada is the greatest nation
on earth and has the world's state of the art space program - as the word
"jingoism" implies. Most of the discussion as been around the point that
any non-Americian has the right to discuss NASA's difficulties as much as
any Americian and that Canada has contributed to the Space Program as well.

If you wish to discuss this further, please move to talk.bizarre, as the rest
of us would like to read articles concerning the subject we're here to
discuss in the first place - SPACE and SPACE.SHUTTLES, not your inability
to articulate in an intelligent interchange of ideas.


Scott T. MacQuarrie
Senior Technical Consultant,
Toronto Branch, AT&T Canada Inc.
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