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From: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Newsgroups: alt.flame
Subject: Re: I'm not part of this spitball throwing contest.
Message-ID: <8693@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 88 06:51:50 GMT
References: <8540@ism780c.UUCP> <1496@houxl.UUCP> <8606@ism780c.UUCP> <1499@houxl.UUCP> <1728@faline.bellcore.com>
Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <1728@faline.bellcore.com> dnelson@faline.UUCP (Dorothy Nelson) writes:
>In a recent article , Michael A. Petonic lifted a flame I
>specifically aimed at him in private email and used it against Dave
>Kleppel.  He then implied that I had given him permission to do this.
>
>Wrong.

Wrong.

I didn't imply permission.  I merely gave thanks and credit.  Perhaps
that isn't what you wanted.  Oh well....

I didn't realize that you had a copyright on it.  Such is life.

Because of the wit contained herein, I have included the rest of this
article for viewers to read on alt.flame.   You definately have
a pattern.  Since you can't read this from alt.flame, I also am 
forwarding this to you at dnelson@faline.bellcore.com.  You're
welcome.

-MikeP

[ rest of templated flame follows.  Notice similarity to other flame]


)I flamed him in email so that it would sate his public pathetic attempts
)to get a sample of my roasting technique.  A bad move on my part, because
)Mike, eager to gain status as a Net God, started in AGAIN with MORE 
)public pathetic attempts:  this time, to get me to flame his "enemies."
)Not even his masturbating to a poster of Star Trek IV could offer solace to his
)realization that I was not going to rise to his bait.  So, hoping to become
)King of the Sandbox, lacking the amount of imagination present in certain 
)species of multi-legged invertebrates, he posted my email flame against Dave.
)
)Pretty sad.  It's tough for me to realize that there actually *are* guys
)like that out there, with semen encrusted keyboards and social lives
)more bereft than a used tissue's who are so desparate for anonymous public 
)assurance that they'll stoop to any level of obnoxiousness, even if the
)only recognition they get is a slap in the face.
)
)To Mike, and all the other dweebs who see themselves in this posting:  for
)Goddess' sake, GET HELP.
)
)To the rest, who feel a tremor of uneasiness about sending email to brats
)like him... trust that lurching feeling in your gut.
)
)I would appreciate someone forwarding this disavowal to alt.flame, as I 
)cannot post there.  Thank you.
)
)--cosmique muffin (dorothy) ...!allegra!moss!thumper!dnelson