From: patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey)
Subject: Re: SNOOPER IN THE NET
Summary: Idiot loose in West Philadelphia.  Film at 10.
Organization: The Republic of Texas
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 04:07:24 GMT

In article <74152@netnews.upenn.edu> kwelch@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Geisha Dawn) writes:
>Patrick
>>Kevin
>>|> Patrick
>>|> >Kevin W.
>
>>|> >No, Kevin...you did that well *after* you sent your little whine to Conrad
>>|> >so HE could mail it to Susan.  (Why are you responding to something I
>>|> >aimed at him, anyway?  Thanks for doing your part to prove my point...)
>
>>|> What is it with you, Pat?  I was asked not to mail Susan so I apologized
>>|> the only way I could.  Then when I got mail that I thought was from Susan,
>>|> I apologized directly to her then.
>
>>You obviously didn't worry about being asked not to send her mail then, did
>>you?
>
>I thought she started a mail conversation with me, so I responded.  That is
>free speech.  That is what CETs warned us about.

CETS warned you about free speech?  This is getting a bit far afield, isn't
it?

>So, no, I made no bones about contacting her to clarify things.
>
>>That's something that might have worked better if you'd done it in the
>>first place -- and somehow, I suspect you didn't bother with explaining any
>>of *that* detail to the CETS folks.
>
>This is an assumption, and as usual, Patrick, it's wrong.  CETs knows explicity
>what took place, they have copies of all letters I sent and Susan sent.

Good for them.  It's nice to know *someone* has an idea of what they're
doing up there.

>They know; you do not.  Don't stab into the dark when there's nothing
>there.

I never said I knew, nor did I assume that there *was* something there in
the first place.  That didn't stop you from taking the bait and running with
it, though.  

>>|> I did not whine to Conrad.  I simply asked him to do something for me.
>>|> I'm not defending his thread here; I'm refuting your statement.
>
>>Or trying to, anyway.
>
>Accomplished.

If you want to take credit for an insignificant accomplishment, more power
to you (a figure of speech, of course).

>>|> Why do continually insist on being an ass?  I've brought myself out into
>>|> the open and apologized.  Now you keep kicking me while I'm down.
>
>>Well, since you seem to have the same benighted attitude as you did when this
>>whole thing blew up in your face, it looks to me like you haven't really
>>apologized much, and I'm just pointing out that it sure looks that way to me.
>
>What more do you want me to do?  Send her roses and buy her a car?  I 
>apologized and ended the thread.  Whether she forgives me is her prerogative.
>And if she doesn't, that's okay.  But I've done all I could, and I will do
>no more to indicate I'm sorry.

How you make up to her is between you and Susan.  How about finding
something else for us to argue?  

>>I could be wrong, of course -- but you sure haven't given me (or anyone else
>>involved in this mess) much of a reason to believe I am.
>
>I have no reason to aplogize to you.  This event was between Susan and me.
>She had every right to be angry and I apologized to HER.
>
>So get off my back.

Act like you've learned something from it, and I will.  (Not that I was ever
on your back in the first place.  One thing you need badly is a thicker
skin.)

>>If you think I'm kicking you, boy, do you have a lot to learn about life.
>>Try doing that a little this summer.  (Learning, that is.)
>
>Learn about life, I suppose you have.  But you've not yet learned to prove
>assertions that you make, false assumptions, a grave injustice.

You obviously haven't learnt that suspicions aren't always assertions --
remember where I said I could be wrong?  (In this case, I'd like to be
wrong.)

>>|> Nice philosophy.
>
>>It does for me.  You made your bed, after all.
>
>I make my bed every morning.  Who cares...

Obviously not a speaker of Appalachian -- in other words, "you made your
bed.  Now you can lie in it".

>>|> >Patrick L. Humphrey  (patrick@is.rice.edu)  Rice Networking & Computing Systems
>>|> >    *"The opinions expressed by Patrick do not necessarily represent those
>>|> >             of Rice staff, management, or any living person."*
>>|> 						^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>|> evident
>>
>>Back to Remedial Logic for you, son.  Have a nice summer.
>
>I'll enjoy not missing YOU.

That's quite all right -- I'll be spending a couple of weeks in late June
and early July, first in Kentucky to see my parents (and the rest of the
kinfolk), then to South Dakota to visit Dale Ann's.  Just think -- for a few
days after June 20th, I'll only be a seven-hour drive up I-81 and I-76 from
you...but we have too much to do in the mountains to worry about wasting gas
on driving up to behold *you*.

>>                  All wiyht, rho sritched mg keg tops awound?
>>   (It couldn't have been Welch.  He's still figuring out the Sholes layout.)
>
>a he he he
>So funny.  So cool.  So you.  So imature.

So what?  :-)


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