Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!decwrl!ucbvax!GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU!weemba From: weemba@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) Newsgroups: alt.flame Subject: Re: Hold it, everybody, I have to go potty Summary: True flit Message-ID: <8801081530.AA00815@garnet.berkeley.edu> Date: 8 Jan 88 15:30:38 GMT References: <1241@cg-atla.UUCP> <8801070227.AA27100@garnet.berkeley.edu> <4583@ihlpg.ATT.COM> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) Organization: Brahms Gang Posting Central Lines: 107 In article <4583@ihlpg.ATT.COM>, apeed@ihlpg (Andrew B. Peed) writes: >In article <8801070227.AA27100@garnet.berkeley.edu>, weemba@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes: >> >> My gracious wisdom is that the article in question is a forgery. > >Great hopping Jesus H. Crist, folks! Hold on to your hats and get ready for >yet ANOTHER round of "THAT ARTICLE WAS A FORGERY!!" "I NEVER WROTE THAT!!" >and "YOU DON'T EVEN EXIST! YOU'RE ACTUALLY enemy's.name here>!!" Forsooth, a real soothsayer. You ought to go into the business. But unlike others in these endless rounds, I'll try to get hold of a few FACTS to base my speculations on. Things like article headers from around the net. >For *THIS* I left college? What college? (Warning: this is a trick question.) >GET REAL, FOLKS. Flaming is one thing, and a well written one is a joy to >read. But this here finger pointing and alias-shaking is a royal pain in >the ass. >Not to mention infantile. So you don't think it's a forgery? You think I'm just playing some asinine game of the "Ayuck yuck yuck" sort?? If you don't believe me, go check for suspicious path headers It isn't terribly hard. Tell me why the original potty article showed up with the following path here at jade: Path: jade!aurora!ames!rutgers!ho95e!homxb!ihnp4!ptsfa!pyramid!amdcad!\ decwrl!ucbvax!GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU!weemba ? jade and ucbvax are next door neighbors; indeed they're both machines here at UC Berkeley, and I think they might even be housed in the same room. Everything that *I* post via the ucbvax!GARNET gateway shows up at jade within minutes (when things are working), but never after a long trip across the country and back again. And while you're at it, you might also tell me why the article never showed up at ucbvax in the first place, with ucbvax obviously up there in the path. Someone was incredibly peed-off--if you pardon me taking your name in vain-- and wanted some sort of explanation. I'm sure there were others. Why do you find that infantile? Oh, it's pointing at unnamed and unknown people that you find so infantile? Are you defending news@killer or something? Try some cogent arguments or something. However, to your credit, you posted this response only in alt.flame. Which I find pretty funny, considering the next round of obvious finger-pointing: Here's the path to drivax: drivax!amdahl!\ ihnp4!ptsfa!pyramid!amdcad!decwrl!ucbvax!GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU!weemba Here's the path to mimsy: mimsy!oddjob!hao!gatech!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!\ ihnp4!ptsfa!pyramid!amdcad!decwrl!ucbvax!GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU!weemba (Look at that, wowza wowza wowza, decwrl is in the path TWICE! Congratu- lations, somebody, perhaps you've uncovered a bug in the news software.) Here's the path to jade again: jade!aurora!ames!rutgers!ho95e!homxb!\ ihnp4!ptsfa!pyramid!amdcad!decwrl!ucbvax!GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU!weemba As a mathematician, I tend to notice patterns at lightning speed. Something just tells me that the article in question was posted from ihnp4. Anybody you might know Andy? Uh, oh, it's wild infantile speculation time, folks. I hope you readers of alt.flame aren't terribly offended, but, oh dear, I'm now going to point the wild weemba whistle at ihnp4!ihlpg!apeed (Andrew B Peed) himself. I had the feeling when I originally put in that line--"Just because the fellow with the 2-inch dick cross-posted all over the place doesn't mean the rest of you have to follow him for the rest of your life."--that the coward who posted as news@killer would reveal himself soon enough. I think I succeeded: not enough outraged traffic for the instigator to laugh over had been generated by the potty article, so it was now time to bait for more flames. (Who could forget Footsie, who just HAD to flame Gene Smith for having the, the, I mean, the completely and totally unmitigated GALL to point out that the arndt@prometheus articles were complete phonies, demand- ing that Gene come up with evidence to back his claim up. So he did.) You know, I wonder if Peed is our old friend bitch@chinet, taking advantage of the newsfeed ihnp4 <--> chinet. Hmmmm. There's also ihnp4 <--> ihlpg, and ihnp4 <-> killer, but no ihnp4 <--> ucbvax newsfeed. And I'll even wonder, strange as it may seem, if "Andrew B Peed" itself is a pseudonym. (That's why I asked the trick question above. Pseudos always keep it a secret.) >Honestly, I don't know *WHY* I created your stupid race in the first place... Was his WHOLE article a Peed-gets-the-giggles-at-his-own-in-jokes confession? As one master baiter to another, oh Mr Peed, I think you suck it small. ucbvax!garnet!weemba Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720 "Just because the fellow with the 2-inch dick cross-posted all over the place doesn't mean the rest of you have to follow him for the rest of your life."