Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-lymph!arndt From: arndt@lymph.DEC Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: A Public Complaint about Greg Kuperberg! Message-ID: <1235@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Mar-85 14:59:23 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.1235 Posted: Thu Mar 21 14:59:23 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Mar-85 01:26:37 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 82 Whee!! Since the mail goes between us so fast I'll jot down an answer to your just posted childish nonsense while I sit here and eat my lunch. Your location goes a long way to explaining your frame of mind. I took your original complaint against the way I wrote my Subj: line as just so much gut wind - you know, like the price of a good plate of beans. There will always be someone to complain about 'style' or content or something. You seem to me to have the mind set of a Jr. High boy's room monitor - you remember, the kid with the big board and the small key who told everyone when to pee. I've run your recent postings through my N.U.P.P.s program (Net Users Psy. Profile) and you come out skinny, with glasses, a runny nose and a high- pitched whinny voice. Intelligent, but lonely, poor self-image with friends of the same type. Gee, how close am I?? Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps it is only something you ate that is making you crank so. I've read other postings of yours with interest but these postings of yours claiming I'm misusing the net by including the name of person whose piece I am replying to in the subject line are silly. Would you prefer that I use, "About Joe Smith's posting"?? I find that several replies to the same subject become hard to follow when they all use the same title prefixed by Re. Re. Re.. So I use the convention "To Joe Smith". Please note, PERSONAL mail is mail ONLY to that person - none of which mine are when sent to the net itself! I DO carry on a lot of personal conversations off the net. I have been replying publicly to someone who made a public statement. That's all!!! So I identify the PERSON who made the comment instead of the topic!! Big deal. Sure tell me it annoys you. I can dig it. Might even consider a change just for you. But when you puff yourself up to be the 'net.monitor' and tell everyone "look, look what Arndt is doing. He shouldn't be allowed!" Why, you make yourself out to be a public nitwit!! But on to your most recent swamp gas: [You say] 1) Your language is unbecoming of a Christian. I am also insulted that you might think that the phrase "Go soak your head, twit!" would have any positive effect on me. *** You mean it's unChristian to call you a twit???? Perhaps. But what do you know about it I wonder? I am instructed not to call you a fool - that is, make a value judgment about your ultimate value as a person, a thing which only God knows. Or do you refer to be called something else? As for 'Christian' language, remember the language Christ used to the 'twits' of his day?? "Whitewashed tombs!" "Hypocrites!", etc, etc. Believe me, I never intended my calling you a twit to be more than an identification! More like a board on the side of the head to make a 'positive' effect on you. [You say] 2) Yes, I would prefer it if you put the topic on the subject line instead. If the article is really of general interest, then the name of the person to whom you are replying is of secondary importance to the current topic of debate. *** A judgement call at best. I prefer my judgement! Sorry that blows you away. Be a big boy and live with it. [You say] 3) Most of your articles are not of general interest. I, for one, have no desire to see you instruct Robert DeBenedictis on how to place a want ad. You posted not one but two articles on this enlightening subject. Greg *** Oh dear. I posted one too many articles on the same topic. How many are you going to post on this topic?? If you don't want to see it, don't look. Not of general interest??? There you go again, Mr. Monitor!! ------------------------------------- Look Greg. Try two heaping spoonfulls of Metamusil (cherry flavor, trust me) in a glass of water. In six to eight hours you'll feel much better. Regards, Ken Arndt "One can tell the measure of a man by the enemies he makes." What are you trying to do? Make me look small????