From: kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy)
Subject: Re: Kebbin begs for attention
Organization: Who, me???
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 05:27:00 GMT

In article <Bu7An2.DMn@world.std.com> rissa@world.std.com (Patricia O Tuama) writes:
>In article <1992Sep6.220804.13744@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
>>If redirecting does not a net.cop make, then I'm no net.cop, dear. I've never
>
>Sure you are, Kevie.  You're all the time whining because somebody
>somewhere didn't post to the approppriate newsgroup.  

Prove it. Cite more than, say, half a dozen instances in the last two years.
Considering my total posting volume in that timeframe, 6 instances would of
course amount to only a drop in the bucket. But at least it would be a 
-start- on proving your claim.

>>>Scramble, Kevie, scramble!  First you whine about "flurries" of
>>>"unprovoked" attacks and now you're desperately trying to pretend
>>>they were nothing.  
>>They don't bother me, really, dear. I acknowledge that they exist, but they
>
>You can't have it both ways, hon, you can't sit there and whine 
>about my articles and then turn around and insist that they mean
>nothing.  

I agree. I COULDN'T have it both ways. But, then again, I'm not TRYING to
have it both ways: the "insist that they mean nothing" part is right on the 
money, but the "sit there and whine about [Trish's] articles" part is a 
fabrication of your making.

>One or the other, Kevie, not both.  If you genuinely 
>believed that what I say about you means nothing, then you
>wouldn't pay any attention to it.

I mention "it" only in the context of your obsession, dear. "It" doesn't
bother me, in and of itself; "it" is just a manifestation of your warped 
and tortured psyche. If "it" disappeared permanently tomorrow, the only 
effect "it"s absence would have on me is a possible reassessment of my opinion 
that you are obsessed. NO OTHER EFFECT. So you can quit with this charade 
about how hurt & wounded I am from your posts, dear. It just doesn't ring 
true.

>>You said no macro or function key 
>
>It was an old t.b joke, dear.  

Ironically, so is its author...

>>>And yet you were the only person out of all those tens of thou-
>>>sands of netters to complain about it.  
>>No complaint, dear, just a comment.
>
>Doesn't matter, you were still the only person out of all those
>tens of thousands of netters to say anything at all.

BFD. I'm the first responder to DOZENS of posts, dear, and often the 
combined readership of the articles I respond to is well over that of 
news.misc. Does this mean I'm driven? Compelled? Obsessed? Not in the
slightest. All it means is that no-one else bothered to respond before I did. 
Obsession cannot be judged from a single isolated article, dear -- it has to 
be discerned from a long-term pattern of behavior. Your obsession with me 
sticks out like a sore thumb (I've already identified most of the flagrant 
symptoms in an earlier article in this thread), but there is negligible 
evidence of any reciprocal obsession. As far as I'm concerned, you're just 
some loony who can't seem to get me off her mind...

>As I said,
>the only reason you responded was because you were hoping I'd
>notice you.

Yeah, that's right. Play hard-to-get. Try not to seem too eager. Whom do 
you think you're fooling?

								- Kevin
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