From: tsirbasc@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Tsirbas Christos)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Neil's depth (was Re: neil's cross?)
Date: 6 Oct 92 05:52:28 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

Frank Sellin writes:
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Folks, these long flames for the last 100 plus posts are really eating up
bandwidth and really trying my patience.  What say we get back to what it
is we're supposed to be doing:  contributing to the free flow of information
and avoiding polemics?  If you still feel the need to flame, clog your
personal mailboxes, not the net.
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Well, Frank,  I should like to set the record straight.  I'm not one for 
starting flame wars, but a certain Gregg Yeager has appointed himself mod-
erator of this group and of the Alt.music.Rush version of political correct-
ness.  It seems that everytime somebody posts a comment that Mr. Yeager sees 
as disagreeing with his own version of Rush Orthodoxy, he sees it fit to start
a flame war.  So far, I have bore the brunt of the flames and have responded,
IMHO, as politely and intelligently as warranted.  Unfortunately, Mr. Yeager
seems to want to continue this juvenile thread and is forcing it upon other
users.  I am sorry to offend, but I cannot stand back and let somebody like
Mr. Yeager determine the content and leaning of this newsgroup.  I think that
everybody has a right to hold their own opinions and to voice them intelligentlyand to get the respect they deserve as human beings, regardless of whether one
agrees with them or not.  This whole thing started, if you recall, when I dared
to post that a true Rush fan is not one who unconditionally and uncritically 
accepts whatever the band does.  Mr. Yeager, if I recall was the first to 
flame me openly, but I also recall that he, in turn was flamed (by myself, but
also by others that agreed with my perspective), what ensued was an open flame-war in which Mr. Yeager not only criticised my views on Rush, but my choice of
profession as well as my private thoughts, to which I alluded to, but did not
make public.  Mr Yaeger replied to my objections pointing out that he is not as
narrow-minded as I perceived him to be, and I apologized, pointing out that perhaps he was not getting his point across as he wanted it.  What I got as a resultwas another flame.  Frank, and everybody concerned on this newsgroup:  I have nodesire to wage a flame war with anybody, but if somebody feels that my opinions are not valid because they are not his, then it is up to him to skip over my posts.  I did not start the flame war, but if Mr. Yaeger persists, then I will finish it.  As far as I am concerne






d, from my end, I enjoy using this group and will continue to look in and post my opinions.  If Mr. Yeager does not like these opinions, then I suggest he ignore them.  However, should he persist in attacking me or any others that voice opinions different from his in such a manner as to be insulting, I will not hesitate to put him back in his place.

Faithfully yours,

Chris Tsirbas
tsirbasc@brise.ere.umontreal.ca
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Go not with ruins in your mind
Or beauty fails; Rome's sun is blind
And catacomb your cold hotel!
Where should-be heaven's could-be hell.
                    -Ray Bradbury
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