From: ts2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Omar Smith)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,alt.censorship
Subject: Re: Billyboy Starr has had it with me
Date: 22 Jul 92 16:25:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.oePTlfG00VpJMcpkwf
	<1992Jul22.175330.12394@Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Senior, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

William Starr writes:

>Dear folks:
>
>(1) I use RN to read my news.
>
>(2) I have had it with Ed Nilges, and have put him into my killfiles
>    for these newsgroups by adding "/nilges/hj" to these killfiles.
>    In RN-language, this tells the system to check the header of each
 >   article for the character string "nilges" and to kill the
 >   article if it's found.
>
>(3) The problem is that although this insulates me from articles
>    posted by Nilges himself (since they all have "From: egnilges"
 >   in their headers), it doesn't save me from other people's well-
 >   intentioned attempts to reply to Nilges articles.
>
>Accordingly, I humbly request that people who are posting direct
>replies to Nilges posts modify their posting software, if possible, so
>that the string "nilges" will appear somewhere in the header (e.g.,
>"In-Reply-To: egnilges@...").  Thank you.

Ed Nilges responds:

>Yet Starr has a strange, almost addictive obsession; reading refutations
>of what I say.  He goes on in this post to say that he wants to be able
>to see these refutations but not posts from yours truly.
>
>How strange!  For logically if BillyBoy Starr has had it with me, he
>would not wish to hear even refutations of what I have to say.
>
>The suspicion grows: of either a strange, sick obsession on the part of
>BillyBoy Starr with me, or an unwillingness, quite contrary to Starr's
>professed dedication to free speech, to hear all sides of an argument.
>Or, Starr originally put me in his kill file because of a fit of rage at
>being bested in argument.  
>
>Bill, grow up.  Put the string Nilges in your kill file if you don't
>want to hear from me or any of my relations on my father's side.  Or
>else take it out and join the fun.  Quit whining, either way.
>
>Some neutral party may wish to see that Bill reads this by mailing it to
>him.  I really don't care one way or the other.

Ed, where in the original article do you find an indication that he
wishes to read responses to your rants?  I thought he was quite clear in
indicating that he wanted the "nilges" string in headers precisely
because he did NOT want to read the replies to your articles.  But since
it was outlined in simple, easily read english, I guess it was too
tricky for your miniscule brain to comprehend.  That your world view is
warped is one thing.  That you are incapable of parsing standard English
is quite another.  Ed, you need professional help.  And not from some
warped feminist therapist with an agenda to mold into your troubled
brain, but from a qualified psychologist who will give you the
professional help you obviously need.

					Tom the non hacker
					Kemp in 96!
					Ross Perot may indeed turn this
					country around.  However, his next act
					will probably be to bend it over.
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