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From: euatdt@euas11g.ericsson.se (Torsten Dahlkvist)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Signature lines
Message-ID: <2150@erix.ericsson.se>
Date: 28 Aug 89 10:36:04 GMT
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In article <74633@right.here> adweeb@right.here (A. Dweeb) writes:
>In article <2146@erix.ericsson.se> euatdt@euas11g.ericsson.se (Torsten Dahlkvist) writes:
>>
>>A lot of us non-english-native-speakers use terminals adapted to other
>>languages. For instance, Swedish has three extra letters after z which
>>cause us a lot of trouble when we use computers for writing regular text
>>in Swedish.
>
>Aww, quit yer griping!  At least you don't have to wait five weeks to
>get parts for your Volvo.  Heck, if there were half as many blonde
>women running around here, the last thing I'd worry about are the
>punctuation marks on my computer keyboard.
>
>So there!  \|[{}~`$&$##)@!^?     that'll fix 'em....
>
>--
>Allen Arthur Dweeb

Well "Dweeb", you certainly seem to have picked an appropriate name for
yourself. Couldn't face the world with your real name so you think you're
smart when you've read in some magazine how to hack News to give a false
header to your little postings. There are words for that kind of behaviour.
Some of them are polite. Some shouldn't be used around sensitive people. None,
however, come even close to expressing the utter distaste I feel for you and
your kind.

Folks, these "Dweebs" are a problem. It's no good editing your "kill" files
when the slimes keep changing their fake ID:s (probably can't remember from
one day to the next what name they used) and you can't E-mail them because
the letters bounce at every sensible mailer. The only way to get to them is
to engage in flame-wars with them on a newsgroup, which never works since that
was what they wanted in the first place.

It's sad to see how quickly news.newusers.questions has deteriorated from a
newsgroup where new users could ask the questions they needed in order to
get acquainted with the system into a .flames group where self-appointed
"gurus" compete in displaying the most inflated egos and who can make the
worst stink when letting out their excessive gasses. How about thinking for
a second about the purpose of the group before blowing it all out! This was
supposed to be a place where a new user could ask a naive question without
getting RTFM thrown at him from 100 directions.

Oh, and "Dweeb": If you're dumb enough to drive a Volvo outside of Sweden,
you deserve every punishment you can get. As regards the blond women, maybe
it's because there are so many of them running around that we do have the time
to worry over what are not merely punctuation marks but real, unique
fully-qualified letters with their own proper places in the alphabet.

/Torsten


 Torsten Dahlkvist
 ELLEMTEL Telecommunication Laboratories
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