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From: kfk@ccieng2.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: Apology
Message-ID: <135@ccieng5.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Sep-83 11:32:03 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  6 11:32:03 1983
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Ladies and Gentlemen of the net:

I would like to apologize for the placement of my article on the use of
firearms in net.general.  It seems I offended a significant fraction of
of the net population by placing it there.  It was not intended to of-
fend.  Please allow me to explain.

The discussion to which I referred started out in net.general about 2
weeks ago, when a person posted an article titled, "The wheels of jus-
tice turn slowly ..."  after which an article appeared in response to
it which took an argumentative point of view on the subject.  I felt I
should respond, but I knew that net.general was not quite the place.
Therefore, I put my article in both net.general and net.flame, with a
note in the article explaining that I was trying to move the discussion
permanently to net.flame.  Really, folks, it *was* a serious attempt to
move the discussion to net.flame.  (Does such a "move" protocol exist?)

Again, I apologize to all those I offended.  This is written exclusively
in response to the mail I have received.  I haven't even seen the news
yet today, having been gone over the Labor Day weekend.

============== Karl Kleinpaste ===============