From: cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton)
Subject: Re: I would like to formally euologize
Organization: t.b, t.p.d, & a.d
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:12:56 GMT

Graeme Hodgson (graeme@fulcrum.co.uk) wrote:
: In article <1992Dec9.200005.9918@netcom.com> cliftonr@netcom.com (Pope Clifton) writes:
: >  Now, in the interests of gender neutrality, what say someone does for
: >"Cosmik Debris" next, before proceeding to the other newbie women?  
: ...
: your precious little club who think the whole f**king net (and t.b in
: particular) belongs to them and is provided for their exclusive
: entertainment and convenience maybe you will, at last, be truly happy.

Graeme, please listen up.  It seems to be free clues season, and you
really haven't been all that annoying, so here are a few more clues: 
 1) I'm far, far, from an oldbie.  I have been posting here about a year
    (I think.)   I had been reading (on a very partial feed) for about 6 
    months before that.  All the same, this place is very precious to me
    and I will defend it with the limited tools at my disposal.
 2) I hadn't met any members of this "precious little club" face-to-face
    until a few weeks ago, when I got to meet a couple.
 3) I flamed the hell out of one poor peckerwood a bare few weeks after 
    I started posting.  Why?  NOT because I was part of the club (I certainly
    wasn't) but because he was pissing in the stream we drink from.  He
    wrote nothing original, nor funny, nor bizarre, nor intelligent.
    Get the pattern?  Note the resemblance to Mike "Cosmik Debris" or
    certain other newbies?
 4) Again, if you paid attention, you would notice that I am not immune to
    being flamed.  In the last few weeks, I've been flamed by Mr. Heinous,
    Sean, and Blair, just off the top of my head.  It's a good alert that
    I need to bring the average quality of my posts up, fast.
 5) I can certainly think of a few people who made their entry here without
    _ever_ being flamed.  They wrote good, intelligent, really strange stuff.

To sum up, if you come on here posting unoriginal crap, you will be flamed off
immediately.  If you come on here posting original crap, you will be given a
short waiting period, and then flamed off if you don't improve.  If you come
on posting good stuff, you may never be flamed.  If you post a mix, you will
be flamed for the crap, and tolerated for the good stuff.  I don't see why
this is so hard to understand -- I got it in the first couple days reading
the froup.  And I apologize to all the readers whose intelligence I am 
insulting by having to spell it out like this.

: Yes, I'm new.  Yes, I find t.b amusing.  Yes, occasionally I post
: something which maybe you don't find funny.  Then killfile me please
Maybe, if that's what you want.  I do clean out my killfile periodically, 
so I'll see you again in six months to see if you've improved.
But why are you here in that case?  Do you think you, and the whole world,
have some sort of god-granted rate to bore and annoy at least 80,000 people
until they killfile you?

: Graeme "craving the acceptance of the t.b elders" Hodgson
Want acceptance?  Learn to WRITE, goddamnit!  Or learn to SEE what's around
you, and then write about it!  You aren't going to get acceptance by whining 
about it.
  -- Clifton
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