From: ajr@pug.hri.com (MFHorn)
Newsgroups: alt.personals
Subject: Re: alt.personals and enforced monogomy
Date: 3 Sep 92 22:01:06 GMT
	<AJR.92Sep1153821@pug.hri.com> <15129@claris.com>
Reply-To: ajr@hri.com
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.
In-reply-to: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com's message of 2 Sep 92 18:55:49 GMT

In article <15129@claris.com> mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
> In article <AJR.92Sep1153821@pug.hri.com>, ajr@pug.hri.com (MFHorn) writes:
> > In article <15105@claris.com> mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner) writes:
> > > His policies are not 
> > > discriminatory; they do not preclude anyone from using this newsgroup.
> > 
> > This would be hilarious if it weren't so sad.  I have to agree with Dan;
> > you wouldn't have a clue if you worked for Scotland Yard.
> 
> That's very informative.  Do you mean that his policies do preclude people from
> using the newsgroup?

I'd like to nominate Mike Steiner as the first winner of the Turing Award.
It's just too hard to believe a person could be so dense, so often.

> > This argument is totally bogus.  Interest in creating a new services and
> > having the resources and environment to create one are, in 95% of the
> > cases, MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.
> 
> That is totally bogus; the anon contact service is not a news service.

Well we each messed up here.  I didn't mean "new services", I meant "new
service" (singular, not plural).  And, 95% is a low estimate.  But you
weren't smart enough to see that.  In fact, you seem to think I meant
"news service" (put the "s" in the wrong place).  Again, the denseness
required to come to that conclusion instead of the proper one amazes me.
Especially after my presidential election analogy..

It looks like Doug was right when he said you just glance at a few words,
incorrectly assume you know exactly what's being said, and follow up to
that.  Every statement in your follow up to my article (every single one,
I just went back and reread it) demonstrated that you had no idea what I
was saying.  It's one straw man after another..

> > > BTW, I don't post anything anonymously now; Darryl won't let me--because,
> > > contrary to your assumptions, I am married.
> > 
> > This would also be hilarious if it weren't so sad.
> 
> The sad things here are your arrongance, hypocricy, and blindness.

I'm not even going to try explaining what I'm talking about, because we
would go back and forth for days and you wouldn't be any closer to
understanding.  As much as I love a good argument (for argument's sake),
I have to resign from this one (probably because as arguments go, this is
one of the worst).  Your denseness wins out over my patience.

I went through all this for a week or two shortly after Darryl started
his service.  It went on that long because there were one or two people
(you might have been one of them, I don't remember (or care)) who just
didn't have the mental capacity to understand what I said.  And it wasn't
me; I'm not capable of writing over the heads of your average high school
graduate.

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