From: jca@crash.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Subject: Rifleman needs enlightment (was Re: Enlightenment)
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 06:32:28 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.235419.27034@athena.mit.edu> sybok@athena.mit.edu (The Rifleman) writes:
>In article <1992Jul21.073919.22485@crash.cts.com> jca@crash.cts.com 
>(John C. Dickhead) writes:
          ^^^^^^^^
That is Mr. Archambeau to you.  I, unlike you, use my real name on the
net.  And I expect to be addressed as such.  How can you expect anyone
to take anything you say seriously?

>>Get a clue, Rifleman.  If it came from news@athena.mit.edu then it
>>obviously came from you.
>
>For your information, pinhead, there are 12,000-13,000 ACTIVE ACCOUNTS on
>ATHENA.  There are on the neighborhood of 300 public workstations around
>campus, not including many, many private workstations in various departments
>and offices.  I hope you do not continue to slander me in this fashion.  Any
>one of those people could have posted a message from news@athena.mit.edu.
>Morever, anyone TELNETING in could also have posted such a message.

And which one of those ~13,000 in the .mit.edu domain is an active pain
in the backstrap on rec.guns and talk.politics.guns?  Circumstantial 
evidence, yes...but convincing considering your known track record on rg 
and tpg.  I think I've found the guilty party.

>>It's idiots like you that give the Brady Bunch ammunition to play with.
>>Same sort of mentality that puts live rounds in firearms at gun shows
>>hoping that an inexperienced person has an accidental discharge not
>>caring if someone gets killed.
>
>In a leap of logic worth of the Three Stooges, you attribute to me leaving
>loaded firearms carelessly around.

You probably do.   You're probably also cast from the same mold of those
idiots that engage in rapid firing when 'no rapid firing' is clearly
posted on the shooting range and end up hitting everything but the
silhouette on a B-27 target.  You may be a gun owner, but you have
demonstrated to be anything but responsible because of your poor
attitude on the net.

>>Does anyone know how to add a line to one's kill file to screen out
>>messages posted from a particular site in the sender line of the news
>>header?
>
>If, as you claim, I posted those messages, it would not take me long to
>figure out how to change this field so as to read something other than athena,
>but I would hardly waste my valuable time on the likes of you.  I've already
>wasted too much writing this response.

I seem to recall an admission from you posted on here saying that you
did indeed post those messages.  Maybe it's more circumstantial
evidence or perhaps another forgery?   Maybe Sarah Brady hacked your
account personally?

But you, sir, have branded yourself in my mind as someone who shouldn't
have a gun because you don't have the proper attitude about handling one.
An accidental discharge waiting to happen.  Or I bet you're just waiting
for that intruder to break into your apartment.  I bet you leave the door
ajar at 3am hoping someone walks in so you can empty the magazine of your 
Springfield Armory 1911A1 into him.

With owning firearms comes a great set of responsibilities.  Having the
proper attitude is one of them.  If you have a bad attitude, you're
going to make a serious error in judgement.

I've said my piece on this matter and I hope it sinks in.  You are now
being entered into my kill file for tpg and rg.  Have a nice day.
--

     // JCA

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