From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
Subject: Re: My netserver is deaf but not, I hope, mute
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date:  9 Nov 92 19:45:58 GMT

In <1992Nov03.015436.159154@watson.ibm.com> margoli@watson.ibm.com (Larry Margolis) writes:

>In <1d48ueINNlu1@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com> regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard) writes:
>>In article <nyikos.720404715@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
>>>For over three days now my netserver has not received any articles.

Which means that I did not see many articles posted between October 22
and October 29, because of the slow newsfeed: I only started seeing new 
articles November 2, and posts seem to expire in 4-5 days lately.

Also, apparently all the articles I posted last week only started to be 
distributed at the very end of the week, so some of you may be seeing
for the first time replies to things you posted two weeks or more ago.

US mail would have been faster!

>>Which *might* explain why Peter Nyikos hasn't owned up to his mistake in
>>reading attributions wherein he slandered me.

No, what explains it is that the mistake, if any, has never been made
clear to me.

>>However, it also *might* *not*.  See, if he were unable to read posts
>>directed at his 'mistake',

See, even Adrienne puts it in quotes.  Of course, she means it just the
other way.  I'm convinced I made no incorrect statements,
{except for satirical ones} and she's convinced I slandered
her.  Or, at least, she acts as though she were convinced of it.

>> do you think for a minute he'd DROP the accusation,
>>when he had (what he thought was) such a juicy one?  I don't.  I think he'd
>>keep it up.

The only accusation I've made is that you were joking when you accused
me of a mis-attribution.

>>Which makes me wonder if he discovered, via e-mail, or discussions with his
>>net-mentors that he's been an idiot about attributions,

How could I discover that which does not exist?

>> AND his accusations,
>>and now he's hiding behind his 'my netserver' is down, because he hasn't
>>the balls to admit his error.

Balls have nothing to do with it.

>>Which seems more likely to you?

>Why guess?

Right.  I don't try to guess people's motivations, except when one guess
(namely, that Adrienne was joking) helps to get someone (in this case,
Adrienne) off the hook.

I learned long ago that human nature is so inscrutable that there is
seldom much point in guessing at the motivations of people.  Adrienne
does not seem to have come to that conclusion.

>  I mailed him a copy of the thread.  Let's see how, or if, he
>responds.  (At least he *asked* for stuff to be sent him, so he can't
>pull a Regan Poston and turn around and threaten to "turn me in to the
>proper authorities" for harassment should I email him.  :-)

Wouldn't want to, and I'm grateful to Larry for e-mailing them.

I responded to Larry by e-mail on Friday.  This morning (Monday) I
received a very brief note from him saying he could not find anything
posted by me since October 30.  That's helpful, but I still saw nothing
from him concerning the long documentation of my innocence that I sent
him in that reply.  I hope he's not too busy to read the documentation.
I'll be posting most of it a little later today.

Peter Nyikos