Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!apple!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!nshore!steve From: steve@nshore.ncoast.org (Stephen J. Walick) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: In Response to an IDIOT Re: filter rule won't work Message-ID: <1991Mar3.015215.4640@nshore.ncoast.org> Date: 3 Mar 91 01:52:15 GMT References: <6781@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Feb26.213638.8557@mrspoc.Transact.COM> <7007@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: steve@nshore.ncoast.org (Stephen J. Walick) Followup-To: comp.mail.elm Organization: Nshore Hacking and Salvage Lines: 105 As quoted from <7007@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> by asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master): +--------------- | In article <1991Feb26.213638.8557@mrspoc.Transact.COM> steven@Transact.COM | writes: | %asg@sage.cc.purdue.edu (The Grand Master) writes: | % | %>In article <1991Feb22.183551.8112@ukpoit.co.uk> ian@ukpoit.co.uk | (Ian Spare) writes: | %> | %>The Grand Master | %> Bruce Varney | % | %Ian was not the only one who didn't know it was a joke. It should not | %be up to the readers to figure it out, Bruce. | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +--------------- Usually, I would just hope and pray that these 'silly' and 'childish' news postings disappear in due time, but I feel compelled to voice my agreement with Steven M. List that, echoing his news posting ... "I [too] though it was rude and obnoxious, too." I would take what Steven List said in his 'followup article' one step further, viz., I really do think you owe a public apology, perhaps not to Ian Spare since he is supposedly your friend, but to all the readers in the net. Now only was your 'followup article' posted to the wrong news group, as was Steven's and as is my own, but your 'followup' arti- cle, along with your so-called 'p.s.' that "Both responses to me should have been sent e-mail, not posted" should have itself, along your your first 'followup article' should all have been been accomplished by 'E-mail'. Furthermore, in taking what Steven List has said in his 'followup', your explanation, or, in my opinion, your likewise sarcastic statement to "...excuse me for assuming that the readers of this group would have a sense of humor, and some cognitive powers", was stretching a point of recognizing a 'humorous reply' beyond, in my opinion, any and all limits of human reasoning. +--------------- | ...Maybe it was obvious to you and John because | %you already KNEW! You've made it sound as though Ian was foolish and | %unintelligent for not knowing you were JUST KIDDING. It wasn't that obvious. | | 3. kid vb or kid.ded; or kid.ding [prob. fr. 1kid] 1: to deceive as a joke | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | (obviously it worked!) +--------------- OBVIOUSLY, IT DIDN'T WORK! ( Go back to school, if you're even out of school yet, and learn how to read dictionary deffinitions! ) +--------------- | following is a copy of the original article with | commens by be in []'s to show just how obvious it was. | | Organization: Milkmaids Society of Indonesia | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ | [ the first clue I had humor in mind] +--------------- Obviously, *YOU* haven't read many news posting and seen other 'Organ- izations: ' that are included in the headers, have you?!! +--------------- | % I changed my MAILPATH=/usr/spool/mail/navarra:/home/u3/navarra/Mail/bruce | [ notice /home/u3/navarra/Mail/bruce - my name is bruce, hmmmmm.] +--------------- Nothing in your header or your signature indicates WHAT your real name is! +--------------- | [ridiculous overuse of words such as idiot, and stupid *should* have been | a clue] +--------------- I'm sorry, you seem to be very young and much inexperienced in under- standing human nature -- I don't think you'd would find many people on the "net" who would agree with that statement. +--------------- | After re-reading the post myself, my only conclusions could have been the | I was joking, or an absolute raving lunatic - in the first case a response | would have been unnec - in the second, it would have been useless. | GET A SENSE OF HUMOR | TGM | p.s. Both responses to me should have been sent e-mail, not posted +--------------- I sincerely, and publically, request that you make an apology for these ridiculous and sarcastic postings that you have made. I find them ex- tremely offensive, and have felt it important to publically say so. My "real" name is, of course, in the ".signature" as well as my 'E-mail' path. For the record, I will not make a reply to you or anyone else on this subject. I do think you owe the people on this "net" a public apology. Regards.... Steve Walick -- Stephen J. Walick, Asst Sysop of the < XBBS > program at NCoast.ORG {uunet|backbone}!ncoast.org!nshore!steve nshore!steve@ncoast.org