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From: kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Flaming Richard Sexton (was Re: alt.dev.null)
Summary: an explanation of sorts
Keywords: new group
Message-ID: <5898@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 17 Jul 88 06:47:54 GMT
References: <2745@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <5843@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <4843@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: kent@cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan)
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In an alt.config article <4843@gryphon.CTS.COM>
richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
[...]
>
>For example some twit recently saw fit to post personal
             ^^^^^^^^^ me
>flames in comp.fonts. It didnt bother me they flamed me. Happens
>all the time. I live for that stuff, dispatch it to alt flame and
>everyone gets a good yuck. It bothered me slightly that it was
>x-posted to a comp (.sys.amiga) group with a world distribution,
>but reading it in comp.fonts really pissed me off. For this I took
>shit from spafford ? For this I took shit from heiby ? So some
>son of a bitch can bad mouth me in comp.fonts ?
>
[...]
>      If you were to flatten out Wales, it would be bigger than England.
>richard@gryphon.CTS.COM                          {backbone}!gryphon!richard


Finally Richard got to feel some of the pain he continually causes
others.  Well worth the eight flames I got email in return, and my
apologies to the rest of the comp.fonts readership that there wasn't a
way to say "for Richard Sexton only" and still have the same effect.

Kent, the man from xanth.