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From: alex@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: My OFFENSIVE Postings
Message-ID: <6081@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 19:33:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.6081
Posted: Thu Jun 20 19:33:02 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 24-Jun-85 03:47:40 EDT
References: <1666@amdahl.UUCP>
Reply-To: alex@ucla-cs.UUCP (Mud)
Followup-To: net.flame
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Lines: 34
Keywords: STUPID MISTAKE, APOLOGY, FIRING SQUAD
Summary: Apology/Discussion

In article <1666@amdahl.UUCP> gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett) writes:
>I am beginning to feel that ucla-cs!alex has "gone too far".
>...
>Gordon A. Moffett               ...!{ihnp4,cbosgd,sun}!amdahl!gam

I'm SORRY about changing the F*CKING followup lines.  OK?  Doing so
was not intended to cause any harm, so I'm SORRY if it did.  Besides,
look on the bright side.  Now aren't more people checking their
followup lines before they post?  We won't see any more double postings
postings to net.women and net.flame, right?  And it sure has provided
people with good ammunition for flaming -- I've certainly been burnt
to a crisp.  Even so, net.flame has been more interesting since we
stopped hearing about seat belts and smokers.  In any case, I admit
that changing the followup lines was not a bright thing to do (I didn't
realize the consequences), and this is an apology.

But Gordon, isn't this America, the land of the free?  And isn't net.flame
for flaming?  And I ask you, if one can flame McDonalds employees, LA
drivers, Ronald Reagan, people with kids in restaurants, and whoever
else doesn't have access to the net, why the HELL can't we flame someone
who is on the net?  Or do you think it is only acceptable to flame someone
who can't flame back?

And besides, it should be pretty obvious when someone is being serious
and when they aren't.  I guess from now on I'll put smiley faces after
everything that could possibly offend wimpering, constipated, overweight,
nearsighted idiots like you and Larry, who can't understand when someone
is being tongue in cheek.   :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Well Gordon, you certainly know how to make someone's day.  I hope you
run out of toilet paper. :-)

Alex
NO FAT CHICKS!  :-) :-) :-)