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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
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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.