Xref: utzoo comp.os.vms:6410 comp.misc:2472 alt.flame:1970 soc.singles:17231 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ihnp4!ucbvax!decwrl!purdue!bu-cs!dartvax!eleazar.dartmouth.edu!jadler From: jadler@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Josh Adler) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.misc,alt.flame,alt.sex,soc.singles Subject: Re: HELP ME (*Oh, what a flame for JJ@Portal*) Message-ID: <8577@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 25 May 88 20:41:40 GMT References: <034449.2147405664@cc.usu.edu> Sender: news@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU Reply-To: jadler@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Josh Adler) Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 34 In article <034449.2147405664@cc.usu.edu> SL747@usu.bitnet writes: >You obviously have enough money to be able to get on the computer >everyday and send that same damn message. Talk about a way to waste a flame and lots of our stupid time! First off, if you were so bloody concerned about spending money on the net, you could have merely e-mailed him a response, Instead, you waste my time and more net money by posting this piece of idiotic babble to five newsgroups. Pretty hypocritical. And second, just because he has access to the net doesn't mean he has the money to pay for it. Many colleges allow access to the net and posting FREE OF CHARGE, i.e., the college foots the bill. Take Dartmouth, for instance... I'm not spendig a damned penny for this, save for the initial cost of a computer and a disk, and we even have public terminals for those students who can't afford a computer of their own. I, for one, found the appeal for small donations to be a rather ingenious if not downright ballsy way to pay the tuition bill. It's been done before, costs relatively little, and the worst that can happen is that you're no worse off than before the plea is made. Not that I'm going to send in a buck myself (I need all the spare cash I got!), but it IS a viable alter- native if you have no other recourse and you don't want to deal with the banks and their ridiculous interest rates. So blow it out your arse and shut up. If asking for money over the net is really such a horrible thing, then he won't GET any, will he? QED. --j-- DISCLAIMER: <<>> The views expressed above are not to be confused with those of the college, nor are they representative of the general mindframe of college students as a whole. They're mine, all mine, and you can't have any. So THERE! ;-)