From: pashdown@javelin.sim.es.com (Pete Ashdown)
Subject: Re: Angry flames, sorry (was Re: Enya nude??
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:02:46 GMT

wgs1@ra.msstate.edu (Walter G. Seefeld) writes:

>In article <BtoG0u.C8C@ecf.toronto.edu> payne@ecf.toronto.edu (PAYNE DENISE JOYCE) writes:
>>In article <1992Aug27.235716.539@ra.msstate.edu> wgs1@ra.msstate.edu (Walter G. Seefeld) writes:
>>>>
>>>I don't know which groups Pete visits, but I have found one that he seems
>>>to contribute to frequently.  It is "alt.tasteless".  Read thru a little of
>>>this group if you want to know why we're not making any progress with these
>>>guys.  They live for this stuff.
>>>
>>>-- 
>> 
>>Your point is moot. If you found him in alt.tasteless, then what wre you
>>doing there yourself? "Pete" is obviously a "bad person" in the alt.music.
>>enya context, and you are a "good one", yet both of you are hanging about
>>alt.tasteless.
>> 
>>If you were NOT hanging about but looking through "questionable" groups
>>(in your opinion of course, which is generally of no interest to other
>>people here I hope, unless it specifically has to do with Enya), just searching
>>for Pete's name, then you're alot more desperate and distressed than you think
>>he is. Plus, what's wrong with "alt.tasteless"? Its a matter of opinion as
>>I said, and I personally dont read it, but I don't deny people access to
>>other groups by flaming them and saying "DONT READ HIS POSTS! HE LIVES IN
>>ALT.TASTELESS!". Its the same thing as saying in soc.women "Dont read his
>>posts, he's been living in alt.sex.movies!". 
>> 
>>If you dislike Pete's posts, then thats your business. What other groups
>>he hangs out in is none of your business. You can post it here ifyou
>>would like to bore the rest of this group and continue the huge entertainment
>>volume thusly flowing, or you can shut up.
>> 
>>denise.
>>-- 

>You completely misinterpreted my post.  Are you always this bitchy?

>The point was:

>	The reason for the difficulty we are having in a.m.e became very clear
>to me as I browsed thru the attitudes and behaviors on a.t, as did the
>hopelessness of the situation here.

>As for what I was doing there:

>	I saw the group name in a list, wondered what I would find there, and
>payed the group a visit.  That's when I ran across Pete's name.  Actually, I
>found some of it very funny, and didn't personally appreciate other parts.
>There's nothing  at all wrong with such open discussion and humor.  I was 
>simply pointing out the differences in the tones of our two groups.

>	I'm sorry I bored you, although it looks to me like you entertained
>yourself quite well at my expense.

>	What did I do to you, anyway?

>-- 
>Walter G. Seefeld                  wgs1@ra.msstate.edu
>940 N. Jackson St. #1A             (601) 323-8369
>Starkville, MS 39759               N5QXR

Hey, I post in alt.tasteless.  I also post in rec.food.recipes from time to
time.
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