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From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,news.misc,alt.flame
Subject: Re: How do I delete certain (harming) files?
Message-ID: <19804@gryphon.COM>
Date: 12 Sep 89 23:38:20 GMT
References: <3141@draak.cs.vu.nl> <1989Sep5.025248.15909@twwells.com> <112@zircon.UUCP> <1989Sep12.031136.2207@twwells.com>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
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In article <1989Sep12.031136.2207@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>In article <112@zircon.UUCP> meadley@cell.mot.COM (A. Meadley) writes:
>: In article <1989Sep5.025248.15909@twwells.com>, bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>: > In article <3141@draak.cs.vu.nl> ollie@gov.secret.usa (Col. Oliver North) writes:
>: > Actually, you are ollie@cs.vu.nl. That was a most clumsy forgery.
>: >
>: > Your postmaster will hear of this. Along with the postmasters of vu.nl
>:
>: Tell you what. Why not take him out, hang, draw and quarter him and
>: then perhaps you could even burn him at the stake.
>
>There will always be the immature, of whatever age, that think that
>purposelessly violating law or custom is funny.

Conversly, there will always be pompous windbags, of whatever
age, that cannot recogninize humor even if it bit them where they 
sit down.

>Too bad, but it appears that you are one of them.

Too bad, but it appears that you are one of them.

But *do* pontificate about the customs and *laws* that were
being broken, since you were going to anyway.

>Do yourself a favor and list three good reasons why such postings are
>harmful. There are actually more than that, but the mere effort on
>your part to find just three might do you some good.
>
>No, don't ask me to do it for you.

Ok, I'm asking. I just cant figure out why this is so evil and naaasty.

Now I can accept the notion that I am morally bankrupt, but perhaps
I'm not the only one that can't quite figure this out.

I mean, you don't reallt think that people believed Ollie North
started posting to the net from Holland do you ?

Or could it be that you got all torqued because somebody defecated
in your splendid new newsfroup, and you took it all personal like ?

>Followups have been directed to alt.flame.

Splendid idea. I did it too.

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