Xref: utzoo news.groups:16090 alt.flame:13687 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix From: greg@phoenix (greg Nowak) Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.flame Subject: Re: Bill Vajk memorial ``DOESN'T GET THE JOKE'' award of 1990 Message-ID: <12618@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 3 Jan 90 17:58:59 GMT References: <1990Jan1.194234.1679@lth.se> <24104@gryphon.COM> Sender: greg@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Reply-To: greg@phoenix (greg Nowak) Followup-To: news.groups Organization: Cabal of Fools; Phoenix Gang Lines: 36 In-reply-to: TAR@MAINE.BITNET (Thom Rounds) Posting-Front-End: Gnews 2.0 In article , TAR@MAINE (Moth Rounds) writes: > Nice try, Richard. But, my call for votes was ALSO posted to >alt.rock-n-roll and rec.music.misc. And ALSO, I posted the call for discussion >in those four aforementioned groups, at the end of November. The original call >for votes went out and Dec. 17. The repost went out two or three days later. >Now then, at least the people on the unmoderated groups should have seen them. >They did not. And I couldn't help but remember your threat to cancel my art- >icles and your constant nagging and saying 'The Floyd group will fail'. Now, >just putting two and two together wind up with you. You are the only real ex- >paination, Richard. NOBODY saw the call fo Votes, and only a few people saw the >call for Discussion. Now, take those facts and all the things you've said and >done in the past, and what do you get? > > --Moth A BITNET twit who doesn't know how USENET works, and can't spell besides? It's precisely because _no one_ saw the articles that it's likely you screwed up in typing the newsgroup names, and so the articles never got to valid newsgroups. Think a bit, Moth -- for Richard to have cancelled an article, he would have to have known of its existence. In other words, it had to get from BUTTFUCK.MAINE.BITNET to California, Richard had to read it, decide to cancel it (ooo that evil man) and then the cancel message had to make its way back across the county, all before anyone in the Floyd Patrol saw it. Highly unlikely. Much more likely that you munged a newsgroup name or two, and you have one of those braindead posting programs that punts the article if even one of several newsgroups in the list of newsgroups is bogus. Oops, I forgot, you're BITNET, you call them "conferences" or "boards" or something. rutgers!phoenix.princeton.edu!greg Gregory A Nowak/Phoenix Gang/Princeton NJ "Most news readers are not UNIX sophisticates and do not have the capability of using KILL files or even know that such a thing is possible." -- Tim Maroney