From: sl9b4@cc.usu.edu (Deep Six)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.advocacy
Subject: Re: Incomplete Posts
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:22:55 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <BuEt2t.EJt@acsu.buffalo.edu>, (Foto...) writes:

>     My posts  do not contain quotes because I do not know HOW the editor works
> and the one time I tried I made such a mess of things that I had to abort the
> post.  Since I obviously don't know how to handle the editor, my posts are of
> no value whatsoever.  

Hey you said it, not me. But seriously, I guess you would advise a beginning
driver to take his car out on the road to practice, eh? Why don't you learn
how to use news properly and then post? I've seen at least two other people
from your site who know how to followup, edit, make sense, etc. Why don't 
you get with some of them work out your problems?
 
> Since I am new to the VAX and up until a week ago had been posting through 
> a local bulletin board that had a different editing system completely, I 
> must therefore be a complete and total dirtbag not worthy of your attention. 

Again, the words are yours..

> Why don't you go and short stroke yourself all the way to a fucking
> hosptial you intolerant dweeb?  

Whoa. Now you're getting personal. You should never talk about somebody's
hospital like that.

> I suppose now that you have some experience in how to handle the hardware 
> you almighty prick with a god-like attitude, you are entitled to pass 
> judgement on what people say simply on the basis of how well they handle 
> the tools they are working with.

God-like? Gee thanks. Well, frankly, yes I am entitled to pass judgement on 
what people say. Pretty much everyone is entitled to do that. Your posts are 
the only thing that anyone has to judge you by here. You owe it to yourself 
to make them as readable as possible. Look at it this way: if you didn't 
know how to tie a neck-tie, would you just wrap and twist it around your 
neck and go to work? That is what you are doing. Now someone has pointed 
out that your tie is all screwed up and you're so mad you just about shit 
your pants.

Let me tell you something. I am about six and a half inches from being 
totally computer illiterate. Further, I am sitting at an terminal which
most would consider to be obsolete and my school's vax system commonly
referred to as ancient. When I started using the net, I abstained from
posting/mailing extenstively until I knew something about the system. I 
used help utilities and test areas until I knew what I was doing. It took
all of about 10 hours, spread over the course of a week. I've got nothing
on you, in fact you probably have more available to you than I have. So, why 
don't you go and practice on somebody else? No on seems to know what the 
hell your are talking about.

> I had thought that the brand of computer bigotry you are displaying was 
> limited to Amiga users who think their machines are the best thing tdon't 
> o come along since sliced baloney!  

I can't believe you are trying to berate me by comparing me to the users
of a certain brand of comuputer. Sort of shows your own brand of bigotry,
don't you think? Maybe your problems on the net go beyond not knowing how 
to use the system.

> I suppose thatyou are too

(Sigh. Slow head shake.)

Okay,
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