From: adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Introduction
Date: 18 Aug 92 00:15:18 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mizar.usc.edu

Oy.

In article <1992Aug17.144414.9045@fig.citib.com> 
glp@fig.citib.com (Greg Parkinson) writes:
> In article <l8s68sINNg54@mizar.usc.edu>, 
> adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
> |> In article <1992Aug16.040630.8682@wam.umd.edu> 
> |> lovegod@wam.umd.edu (Lovegod) writes:
> |> > Hi everybody!  It's been a delightful summer!
> |> 
> |> How nice for you.
>
> An undeserved response.  He says he's had a delightful
> summer.  You sneer.  Why?

Why not?


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> |> > I still don't know too much about anyone  
> |> > here.  Most of the preliminary posts that new people read 
> |> > provide little or no insight of the authors.  
> 
> |> Honey, if you don't know what I'm about after reading two or three
> |> of my posts, no amount of biographical information will help.
>
> There are people here other than *you*.  

And I didn't notice a disclaimer stating that this article
was directed to everyone *except* me.


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> And you've made
> the point that your persona here is not who you are
> away from here - 

Not exactly.  I've made the point that there isn't a one-to-one
correspondence between me on the net and me in person.  Soc.motss.arne
*is* me, but with slightly different emphases.

>                  how can you now chide someone for wanting
> to know more about the real people behind the posts?

Very easily.


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> |> > I really would like to get to know everyone here at  
> |> > soc.motss ... 
> 
> |> How nice.
>
> How not nice.  He's reaching out and you put him down.
> Why?

Why not?


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Arne
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