Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!emory!wuarchive!usc!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Apologies (was Re: Oh, shattered illusions!) Message-ID: <1990Oct23.085742.3296@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 23 Oct 90 08:57:42 GMT References: <6828@sugar.hackercorp.com> <2376@trlluna.trl.oz> <2382@trlluna.trl.oz> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 36 In article <2382@trlluna.trl.oz> soh@shiva.trl.oz (kam hung soh) writes: >Dear Netters, > >I recently wrote an offensive article to this newsgroup, which upon >future reflection, was uncalled for. I suppose what really annoyed me >was when this interaction took place: > >In article <6828@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >>In article <2356@trlluna.trl.oz> soh@shiva.trl.oz (kam hung soh) writes: >>> I don't really give a damn whether the computer I'm using has X or >>> Intuition or Windows. >> >>You're not a programmer. > >[ ... verbose gibberings by me deleted ... ] > >I should have written something more sensible and to the point, >instead of getting angry and possibly infuriating someone else. It >just goes to show that taking a day to think instead of instantly >responding to any remark is a much better practice. > >I would now like to apologise to Peter, and to anyone else on the net >I may have offended. Hey, I liked the daylights out of your rant! Especially the 9 billion names of Peter part! I'm sure Mr. da Silva, in his more lucid moments, would be among the first to admit he needs his shirt unstuffed occasionally by a little emergency napalm surgery. [As do we all.] He knows better than to make unwarranted assumptions about what other netters do for a living. /// It's Amiga /// for me: why Kent, the man from xanth. \\\/// settle for \XX/ anything less? -- Convener, comp.sys.amiga grand reorganization.