From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!hao!menlo70!sytek!blk@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: The flaming of Mr. Glerum
Article-I.D.: sytek.224
Posted: Fri Nov 12 11:45:58 1982
Received: Tue Nov 16 04:30:35 1982

I would like to compliment this newgroup on just and righteous application
of those time-honored techniques of ridicule and disgust.  Mr. Glerum has
committed several glaring violations of good taste, and as one recent
article points out this is a stain on the clean name of net.singles.

For anyone still confused on this issue, here is a brief and surely
incomplete summary of his sins:
Mr. Glerum broached several taboo subjects, and while some were considered
minor by the liberals amongst us, all agree that he struck at the very heart
of our newgroup.  In order of increasing severity -
 1. At the outset of his shameful submission, Mr. Glerum declares that he
	is not even 'close' to getting married.  Surely even the least
	observant reader realizes that net.singles is *not* intended to
	glorify the 'single' condition, but to the contrary is dedicated
	to *eradicating* this dreadful condition.  From the first, 
	Mr. Glerum shows himself to be a pathetic misfit.
 2. He then proceeds to talk openly about wanting to earn a lot of money.
	Besides being extremely tacky in *any* social situation, this
	flagrant display of unabashed ambition makes all of us who program
	for the joy of it, not the money, feel guilty and dirty for being
	middle and upper-middle class.  God knows we didn't choose our
	salaries!
 3. Scarcely a dozen lines into his so-called article, he begins to speak of
	divorce.  I won't ask how many of us have been through that trauma,
	or how many more fear it helplessly, like a nuclear holocast or
	cancer.  Yet Mr. Glerum speaks of 'it' frankly, without apology
	or shyness.  I would like to point out that this may in fact be
	a repurcussion of the infamous Ellen letter!  I hope you all see why
	we must *not* treat these newsgroup articles with either maturity
	or tolerance.  This type of loose talk is *dangerous*!
 4. The overall sense of Mr. Glerum submission was, in fact, an attack on
	marriage itself!  He as much as came out and stated that he would
	prefer to live with someone, and not get married at all.  We all
	know that this view of marriage as a legal and not a moral matter
	is the cause of the breakdown of our values.  Fortunately, recent
	court cases are establishing that love is in fact a legal contract,
	obligating all parties that dare to care.  But even still, we must
	not permit the seperation of love and legal responsibility in any
	open discussion.  Some of the readers of net.singles are still
	very sensitive and open to 'alternative' approaches to the 
	laws of love.

I personally feel confident that Ellen, whoever she may be, will never again
submit another net.singles article.  I would like to say the same about this
Mr. Glerum, but we cannot be too careful.  I also want to praise those who
managed to personally attack Mr. Glerum without mentioning *any* of the
issues he so thoughtlessly raised, particularly those who swore that he
would never be acceptable to *any* woman and that delightful image of his
mythical future spouse poisoning his coffee.  I'm sure that these were
very effective at demoralizing and hopefully intimidating this outrageous
rogue!  Keep up the good work!

			- brian kahn
			chairperson, C.O.L.D.
				Committee Opposed to Lack of Discipline