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From: anderson@vms.macc.wisc.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: The Ghost of Eric Mading?
Message-ID: <1996@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Nov-87 16:15:43 EST
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1996
Posted: Sat Nov 14 16:15:43 1987
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Reply-To: anderson@vms3.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
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Keywords: ectoplasmic manifestations

In article <3506@uwmcsd1.UUCP> jgd@uwmcsd1.UUCP (John G Dobnick) writes:
]
][I can't believe I'm doing this :-) but life is full of nasties.]
]
]Just out of curiosity, I tried the following:
]
]	finger mading@puff.wisc.edu
]
]I received the following "interesting" response:
]
]	[mading@puff.wisc.edu]
]	
]	Login name: mading    	(messages off)	In real life: Eric Mading
]	Directory: /usr2/mading             	Shell: /bin/csh
]	On since Nov 14 13:17:01 on tty67   
]	No Plan.
]
]So, it looks like Mr. Mading is still "puff"ing away.  Whether he has
]net.access anymore is unresolved,  I haven't seen him sprout up in
]alt.flame recently,  but he seems to be alive and kicking.  (Or whatever
]passes for "alive and kicking" in an AI project.)
]
]Is it significant that he has no plan?

One thing you get at the UW is a lot of chances.  The puff postmaster
posted (to several groups) a notice to the effect that the Deans decided
Eric's 1st-Amendment right had been violated, and his account has been
reactivated.  Interesting that he was on when you did the finger.

Since KILL files are such a pain in the neck, I use my n key.  For some
reason, *I* got a tremendous amount of mail about Eric, including some
asking *me* to do something (which I couldn't have done anyway).  

Although I'm certain that he has permanently burned nearly all of his
bridges, I still hope that a series of believable apologies will come
from from him.

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