From: tyg@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Tom Galloway)
Subject: Re: NEW SQUIDDIES (R.A.C. AWARDS) ADMINIST
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 01:08:58 GMT

In article <715609198.1@fquest.FidoNet> Omega.Man@fquest.FidoNet.Org (Omega Man) writes:
>My question: If I have been so wrong in my flaming of you over the years,
>what justification do you give for the obvious snide remarks that you've
>presented above?

Um, what "snide remarks"? Face it Bob, you did finish dead last in the
vote by a substantial margin. You were the only candidate to get 
negative votes (ranking below Hitler on one ballot, and given a position
of MAXINT on another for example). You got a large number of negative
votes. Anyone who read the election results would know this. I deliberately
didn't say who it was in the referenced posting, so I hardly referenced
you to anyone who didn't already know it. Not to mention that you're
vendetta against myself and Chuq for, geez, over five years now, and
no reason anyone but yourself has ever been able to figure out is hardly
a secret to anyone who's been on r.a.c. (although I'll admit you've toned
it down lately, mainly due to a relative fewer number of posts).

>One of those facts, you should mention in the name of fairness, is that when
>you assumed the role of "vote-taker" for the Squiddies "vote-taker", you 
>made a very biased comment *in public* denouncing my offer to run the poll,
>citing your doubts as to whether I could run an unbiased poll, 

Nope. I expressed doubts that you could run the Awards due to 1) your
being on a Fidonet site when Fidonet/Internet gateways are notoriously
unreliable and 2) the fact that there'd already been a number of posts
expressing the desire that you not be allowed anywhere near administering
them.

Bob, I'm going to be blunt here, although I'm not at all sure it'll do
any good. As many people have told you, both on the net and in email,
you could easily have had a decent net.rep. You don't, and it's entirely
your own doing, not mine, not Chuq's, and not anyone else who has the
temerity to disagree with you. Over a five year plus period, you've 
created your own net.rep from your posts. And it's a pretty poor one.
As noted, you got negative votes on your ability to do the Squiddies.
Last year a number of Suicide Squid t-shirt orders included a mention
that if you'd been doing it, no way would those people have trusted
you to send you money. It ain't my fault or anyone else's. It's all 
yours based on what you decided to post and your other actions. You
once stated that you posted as you did because you were bored. You've
never given any coherent explanation of why you have such a vendetta
against Chuq and myself (and claiming once again without any evidence
that Chuq and I did the Omega.Non.Grata parodies doesn't cut it...
particularly given that neither Chuq nor I had net.access at the time
of posting as he was in Britain and I was driving cross-country). From
checking you out after your threat of physical violence against Chuq
and myself, I know that you have the same rep in person in Austin as
you do on-net. I'd hoped that you'd one day grow up, and get enough
of a life to not be so bored. After five years, and numerous confirmations
that you're like this in real life as well, I doubt it'll ever happen.
While I'm sure this'll just infuriate you, I feel sorry for you and the
waste you've chosen to make of your potential.

"They want to see people hurting each other! Why do you think the world's the
way it is? That's all they *ever* want!" --Psycho-Pirate
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