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From: robinson@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Michael Robinson)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: Flamage re Mark Ethan Smith/Netiquette
Message-ID: <22609@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 16 Jan 88 23:37:30 GMT
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Reply-To: robinson@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Michael Robinson)
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In article <1432@quad1.quad.com> (Oleg Kiselev) sticks his foot in his mouth:
>In article <3O31@killer.UUCP> era@killer.UUCP (Mark Ethan Smith) writes:
              ^
              +---(The telltale 'O')

>>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.  
>
>I finally figured out what it was about MES that *really* bothers me:

Some random juvenile delinquent writes a forgery that confirms what you
"*really*" want to believe about Mark, and all of a sudden you understand what
it is about him that bugs you.

It seems that the real Mark doesn't do a good enough job of living down to your
expectations.  You expect something more along the lines of some kid's Mark
Ethan Smith fantasy.

Too bad you don't pay more careful attention.  You might of saved yourself the
trouble of responding to a forgery and showing your closemindedness to the 
world.


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