Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site gatech.CSNET Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!spaf From: spaf@gatech.CSNET (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: net.internat Message-ID: <1726@gatech.CSNET> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 08:38:08 EDT Article-I.D.: gatech.1726 Posted: Fri Oct 25 08:38:08 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 25-Oct-85 23:54:02 EDT References: <471@cheviot.uucp> Reply-To: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) Organization: The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech Lines: 23 In article <471@cheviot.uucp> ncx@cheviot.UUCP (Lindsay F. Marshall) writes: >... I think disguising >bigotry by flaming about voting procedures is utterly despicable. >...Yes, the >net does seem to be full of flamers and cranks with very little >technical content, but it is noticeable that there are very few (if any) >flames from outside the US part of the net - the people in the *REAL* >world out here cant afford the comms charges and try and keep it >technical. [emphasis mine on the world "real" above] Hmm, who is demonstrating bigotry? So those of us in the US aren't part of the real world. Right. Be careful using that word "bigot," especially if your problem is simply one of not understanding or not agreeing with the other fellow's opinion. -- Gene "sometime in 1986" Spafford The Clouds Project, School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332 CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf%GATech.CSNet @ CSNet-Relay.ARPA uucp: ...!{akgua,decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,linus,seismo,ulysses}!gatech!spaf