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From: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,soc.men,soc.women,soc.motss,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Flamage re Mark Ethan Smith/Netiquette
Message-ID: <150@ateng.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 88 17:58:58 GMT
References: <229*manis@instr.camosun.bcc.cdn> <6466@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <8801071134.AA05730@garnet.berkeley.edu> <3O31@killer.UUCP>
Reply-To: chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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Without making any comment on the semantic content of the Mark Ethan Smith
vs. Matt Weiner flamefest, I would like to congratulate the two combatants
on the high quality of their flames.  For example, a recent MES posting...

In article <3O31@killer.UUCP> era@killer.UUCP (Mark Ethan Smith) writes:
}
}You were pretty indignant when I accused you of being the pseudo who told
}the pseudo about my being a pseudo.  You were only using your pseudo to
}repeat what the pseudo told you about me.  Now I accuse the pseudo of being
}you.  If you tell us who the pseudo is who told you that you weren't the
}pseudo, we'll know the pseudo wasn't you.  Until then, if you insist on
}lying by not telling the truth, we will know that you are the pseudo.
}If you repeat what you say as the pseudo and you don't use your real name,
}you are likely to be mistaken for him.

A masterpiece of confusion.  Bravo!

}Of course this would be the opinion of a Reaganite yuppie assimilated Jew
}who gets his kicks flaming people on the network.

I nominate Mark Ethan Smith for the Alt.Flame New Epithet of the Year Award
for the heretofore unimagined "Reaganite yuppie assimilated Jew"! What's
next, "Libertarian white-collar egghead WASP"?  Keep those entries coming!
-- 
Chip Salzenberg                 UUCP: "{codas,uunet}!ateng!chip"
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