Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Cowan Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Thurbing (was: 800 Wrong Numbers) Message-ID: <2613@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 4 Jan 90 21:00:34 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Cowan Organization: ESCC, New York City Lines: 20 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 7, message 3 of 10 In article <2556@accuvax.nwu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: >In <2534@accuvax.nwu.edu> John Cowan writes: >[quoted nastiness deleted] [flame in response deleted] [comment by Digest Moderater deleted] Please be more careful when editing messages! The [quoted nastiness] was >not< by me, but by John Higdon . Furthermore, the flame actually responded to a stretch of material written by me but paraphrasing a >fictional< story by the well-known author James Thurber, as indicated in the text itself. I have >not< told a wrong-number caller I was a railway station. John Higdon has apparently misled some wrong-number callers. A fictional character in Thurber's short story has done the same.