From: mbur@nyx.cs.du.edu (MAC)
Subject: Joel Furr proves that he is an ass. QED 
Followup-To: alt.flame
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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 04:16:40 GMT


The following is a flame with profanity. Move along if you might be offended.   

Followups set to alt.flame

In article <9210070126.AA27791@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> jfurr@vtssi.vt.EDU (Joel Furr) writes:
>mbur@nyx.cs.du.edu (MAC) writes:
>
>> gibberish claiming that everyone must do things his way or else, 
>> including using UNIX newsreaders and killfiles, deleted
>


No, that is not what I said moron.  If you had pulled you head out of
your ass and read what I had wrote you would know that.  Now, to recap for
you, what I said is that usenet is a privilege not a right and if you
want to use antiquated software that's your problem.  Noone has to things
my way.  The point is, people have options open to them.  I have no pitty
for those who make a bad choice, and instead of changing themselves, they
ask everyone else to change.  Like the saying goes "You can lead a horse to
water..." 

 
>My response:
>
>No, you damn jerk, I just don't have much use for "use a killfile when off-
>topic messages start swamping your newsgroup and prompting people to drop out
>rather than creating a new alt group where the off-topic messages belong
>anyway."
>

Now, this is interesting.  I just went through the last 113 articles that
I have access to at my site.  Here is what I found:

Whimiscal posts about Cthulhu:  22

Posts saying "Get this crap out of here":   8

Posts saying "Hey, Cthulhu belongs here":  10

Posts saying "Lets create alt.Cthulhu":  6


The key point here is that as many people think the thread belongs as
people who don't.  Also, although 22 out of 113 is not ideal, it is not
"swamped" either. 



>The net.dictators always haul out "use a killfile" when the subject of off-
>topic messages comes up.  
>


No, you are wrong yet again.  It is the net.dictators who run around
saying "Hey, that post does not belong here" and "Hey, the charter
of this group is blah blah blah" and the ever famous "Hey, I have a
tampon in my ass, could you pull on the string for me".



>To this I now respond in MAC's vein:  Suppose MAC's favorite newsgroup, say,
>alt.fan.masturbation, is invaded by people who want to discuss, say, the
>monastic life and the virtue of prayer.  These people swamp the newsgroup with
>discussions of whether it is better to vow poverty or chastity.  Eventually
>the traffic in the group drops off to the point that most of the messages are
>about monasticism and MAC isn't getting his daily dose of messages about
>autoeroticism.  He trots over to alt.config and proposes a newsgroup about
>monasticism.  Everyone screams "USE A KILLFILE!"
>
>What does MAC do in this case?  I suppose he uses a killfile and thus only
>gets one or two messages in the group to his liking each week.  To each their
>own.


HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!  You are a scream!  How do you do it?  Really, I must
know what makes you tick. <yawn>


The situation you describe would never happen to me.  It only happens
to dickheads like you.  You have no tact and thus scream to have people
shit on you.



Ta-ta for now my little red faced friend with shit in his lap,

M - Follow ups to alt.flame.


ps - If Tim does not create the Cthulhu group I will.  But you are still an ass.
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