From: u0a38@seq1.cc.keele.ac.uk (LJ Barton)
Subject: Re: NIN and interminable whinings on R.M.I.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 19:05:18 WET
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	        'There's someone in my head and it's not me...'
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HIGH THERE...
	     In message <168A4D053.MSZABO@kentvm.kent.edu> someone who
didn't give their name (As far as 'I' could see...No offence intended)
wrote: 

>Sorry to break your 'Vow of silence' on the news group here, 

I never took one...

>but I think you got things wrong.  

'I' don't...

>No one here is trying to _bitch_ about Trent Reznor.

   Maybe not (although actions speak louder than words IMHO, even if the
actions on usenet ARE words) but the postings DO bitch about him for whatever 
reasons...even if not EVERYONE has that intent...


>I just so happens that I live in the area where Trent Reznor grew up, and
>so do some others as my mail responses show me, and have a little personal
>info to share on him.

YOU and your friends are not the only ones writing these postings...Don't be
so arrogant/egocentric !

   The kind of posting YOU are talking about is not the kind 'I' am...
Information known about someone is one thing...ripping the shit out of
people who like a particular group, just because they like that group,
is another...THAT's what I was objecting to.

>If this is your first time responding to a news group,

   It isn't...I've been writing (copiously) to various boards on usenet
for two years...Principally to alt.cyberpunk...I just haven't written to
RMI for about the last 23 months of those two years...

> and you are discouraging
>others from writing back and forth about the same topic, 

   If you mean I'm discouraging discussion and freedom of speech...I'm not... 
...at least that's not my intent...

>then you've obviously missed the whole point of the group.

   Nope....I haven't...

   If you've been reading alt.cyberpunk at all over the last two years
you'll know that 'I' do my best to ENCOURAGE discussion and free thought...
...The more the better IMHO...

   But there's a difference between discussion and pointless bitching...
The former is explorative, positive and directed...the latter mere
verbiage which serves no purpose than to encourage yet another slanging
match, the purpose of which is not to positively encourage thought and
ideas, but to negatively belittle someone else for no reason other than
it is possible to do so...

> no-one can force you to read ALL of the  postings _EVERY_ day.

  Tell me something I don't already know...

> I don't

   You HERO !!!   

>...Why should you.  

   I don't

>If you don't like a 'bitchy' posting about Trent Reznor, then skip it,
>please.

   It's a bit difficult to know whether the posting is going to be
something 'I' want to read until I've read it...Seeing as 'I' like NIN
as well, I tend to read anything prefaced with 'NIN'...surprisingly enough...

   As for your advice about skipping it...

   Hey, thanx for the idea...I hadn't thought of that...I KNOW... from
now on, as soon as I see that I'm not going to like the content of a
posting I'll press 'Q'...Now why didn't I EVER think of that before...?...
Goodness me...I'm so-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o stupid, aren't I ?

>They are obviously not written for you anyway.

   How arrogant can you GET ???

   If you do something in a public medium then what you do is meant for
anyone and EVERYONE who sees it !

   If what you have to say is not meant for anyone but yourself and your
'friends' then say it somewhere else !!!


>Well, with that said let me summarize:

   Oh, alright then...I MIGHT be too stupid to have understood you the
first time around

> 1)  Trent Reznor is a dick.

   Who gives a shit ???

> 2)  Nine Inch Nails is good music.

   Never heard of THAT album...or do you mean that NIN make good music ?

> 3)  Skip the ones you don't like.

   I do

> 4)  Have a grand ol' day.

   Why should I ?... Don't tell ME what kind of day to have !!!... If I
wanted a ''grand 'ol day'' I wouldn't listen to depressing music :)

 
			Cheers,
				Lol (Freelance thinker and imagineer)
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			Just say 'No' to individuality