From: abdutta@icaen.uiowa.edu (Abhijit Dutta)
Subject: Re: Response to NEWS posting
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:32:57 GMT
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa

|I posted a few UPI newsfeeds.  To one of this I recd. the following message.
|One begins to wonder if it is really worth the time to do such postings.
|If the same sentiment is carried through by other netters as well, then
|I would refrain from sending any news clippings that I happen to read.
|
|When one refuses to believe anything that goes against ones wishes/expectations
|then one is in no mood for any news at all.
|
|Comments welcome.
|--Guru
|
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|In article <V1Q-6+=@engin.umich.edu>, you write...
|> 
|>UPI reports:
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|>	SRINAGAR, India (UPI) -- Indian security forces Sunday killed at least
|>15 alleged Muslim militants in a gun battle on the border of the
|>northern Himalayan state of Kashmir, a government spokesman said.

                    *rest of the news deleted*

|Dear Mr. Shankar,
|
|I think that everybody on this net has the ability to read the newsgroups and
|UPI reports without you sending their relays here. I am not quite sure what

        NOT!!!  

        Dear Mr. Fazil, I don't have access to UPI news! 
        And I appreciate Mr. Shankar's effort in posting the news
        items and I hope he would continue to do so.
        So don't be so hasty in generalizing, o.k.! 

|you hoped to accomplish by advertising the deaths of 15 mujaheddin, but rest

        Don't you know!!!  The only language the terrorists understand is 
        toughness.  And the above news item goes to show that, that is the
        precise tactic the Indian forces are adopting in Kashmir ;).

|assured, anybody with any brains knows that the UPI report you relayed is not
|100% accurate. Since that bastion of democracy known as India has outlawed all

        Yeah, yeah, UPI is not accurate!  I know, the only distributors of satisfying
        news are the Radio Pakistan and the Islamic news digest, right Mr. Fazil!!

|foreign press from Kashmir, the only news which comes out is that of the AP and
|UPI. The only way that these groups get their info is through the relay of the
|Indian govt. Let us not be naive in thinking that the new is accurate.  In the

        So from now on, listen everybody,  if you want efficient and agreeable
        news items you know where to turn to, that is Radio Paki and Islamic
        news digest!!!!!

|future, I would request that you offer posts along the lines of the rest of the
|people of this group. Whether you are trying to be inflammatory, patriotic, or

        Which line of post are you talking about, Mr. Fazil.  You can try this
        line in say Pakistan or Iran or Iraq or Saudi Arabia or...(you know 
        where!), but not in here, not yet.  Periord.
        And regarding those 'rest of the people', I would like to let you know
        that I'm not one of them and I'm sure there are many like myself in the 
        net who don't belong to that 'rest of the people'.  
        So again I request you not to generalize based on your personal opinion.

|both, I hope that you take this request to heart. 

        Rest assured Mr. Fazil, I keep your words close to my heart.  
        But when those words get near my head, somehow they sound
        like a threat.  But then I know, our Mr. Fazil is a seeker of
        'correct' news, not 98, 99 or even 99.999.., but
        100% 'correct'!   So instead of threatening, Mr. Fazil sounds
        amusing!!!

|Thank You.

    Thank you, too.

|Sareer A. Fazili

    -jit

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