From: nasiatka@anhep3.anl.gov
Subject: Re: Nirvana
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:12:17 GMT


>I screwed this one up because I initially said 'are an idiot'.

I don't think I'm going to bother letting you know what my rapidly
decreasing opinion of you is...

>So you just help spread them.  Great?  You didn't just ask
>you wanted to burn records and boycott....
>
>>This information was given to me from The Sysop of Risqilly BBS 
>>out here in Chicago.  He got it off the Sysops conference on 
>>GayComm (one of the national bbs services)

Excuse me, bonehead, but if you would bother to re-read the last
paragraph here, you would note that the info I got came from a
pretty reliable source.  Not quite as definative as CNN, but it
was NOT given to me as a RUMOR.  It was told to me as being a
FACT.

>I see a qualification here, but still don't  see how this relates
>to your vicious accusation.......

No real relation to my post.  Just letting you know that YOUR little
comment on me hurting the gay rights movement was false, and that I
have (probably, since I dont know you) done for for it than you ever
have or will.

>So in other words you big wigs don't screw up??????

I never said I didn't make mistakes.  Much as my public would like
to believe that I am some sort of God and up for sainthood, I am
but a mere person.  I have made mistakes in the past, I am currently
making mistakes as I write, and I will continue to make mistakes
until I am graced with death.

>Are you about to apologize for sending out a bad rumor?

You obviously didn't bother to read the next paragraph before opening
your mouth here...

>>Things that come from Gaycomm sysops are usually reliable.  
>>But AP is wrong sometimes too, and so am I.  I apologize to the 
>>members of Nirvana for my mistake.  I have no objection to 
>>being told that I am wrong on something, and I appreciate you 
>>telling me.  

>Naw you accused, you didn't ask or anything, you just went after a group
>that is very very busy now who took out time an schedualed a concert
>for No on 9.  I don't remember too many Gay bands doing this.  Of
>course my Choir did, 4 shows!!!!

>I am impressed with your record (really I am.)  But maybe now you see
>why I got pissed.  You are so far away.  Why didn't you ask?
>
>They are our friends, we don't need to burn our friends......just be
>more careful, please!!!!
>

No, bill, I don't quite see why you got so pissy.  I also don't see
why I should have to ask you, someone who I have never heard from,
don't know, and have no knowledge of your possible authority on the
subject, if I can post some information that came to me from a 
reliable source.  I appreciate you telling me it was incorrect 
information, but I dont appreciate the WAY you told me.  You accused
me of starting rumors, insulted me, and implied that I was 
singlehandedly out to destroy all of gay civilization since Stonewall.

If you had bothered to send something with a bit of a nicer tone,
that simply stated that I was wrong, there wouldn't have been any
problem whatsoever.  Instead, you dumped a ton and a half of
hostility on me.  I didn't accuse anyone of anything.  I simply
stated what I thought to be a fact.  A peice of information.  This
information came to me from a reliable national source (GayComm)
that is well known, respected, and does not engage in spreading
vicious and stupid rumors of any kind!  If I hear something off 
NBC or CBS should I come and ask you too?

As far as me 'going after' anyone, let's just assume for a second
that I was right, and they did give that money.  Would my anger 
be unjustified then?  I seem to recall seeing a whole lot of 
"Boycott Colorado" around here lately.  Given the fact that until 
you enlightened me, I didn't know they were "friends."  Was my 
being pissed off unreasonable given this fact?  If somehow, tomorrow
morning, it was announced that there was a mistake at the ballot
boxes, and that the Colorado amendment was actually not approved
could I sit here and accuse you of going after the poor state of
Colorado, and berate you at how you were so unreasonable for
having those feelings?

I think that in the future, if you are presented with a situation
where you know something someone else says is not accurate, you might
want be a little more polite in your enlightenment of them.  You
may not make more friends that way, but you definately don't make
any more enemies either.

Jim

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