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From: bamford@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (harold.e.bamford)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Offensive new video game...
Message-ID: <14130@cbnewsd.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 90 20:21:47 GMT
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Reply-To: bamford@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (harold.e.bamford,ihp,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Sam Conway writes:
>In article [...] (harold.e.bamford,ihp,) writes:

 Stuff deleted.

>Now, as to your argument about "keeping this off the net", what
>better newsgroup is there to discuss such a thing?  We talk about
>birds here, yes?  This article deals with birds, to a sufficient
>extent to be included here.  What I agree does NOT belong here is
>the long and tedious flame-war that I see building on the horizon,
>so I would like to ask that any direct flames be limited to e-mail.
>Save the net for intellectual discourse.

I agree this should go to email.  In fact I have replied to Sam
directly.  But I must protest this blatant misquote.  I did not say
to keep it off the net.  I suggested that a "protest" (as in front
of the arcade, NOT on the net) would have undesirable results.

*** We now return you to our regularly scheduled program,
*** "Poor Dietary Habits of Some Cockatoos" already in progress...

-- Harold