From: bskendig@bird.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Subject: Re: PETITION:  REINSTATE BRUCE ON FURRYMUCK
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU
Organization: Starfleet Academy, Princeton University
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 02:13:29 GMT

In article <gbtjddc.sterling@netcom.com> sterling@netcom.com writes:
>... what I questioned was that the posting garnered a discussion AT
>ALL.  You see, the petition did not ask for nor offer a debate on what I did
>wrong, nor on what the Furry wizards are doing wrong.  It was a simple request
>for a signature.  If you supported, you could email and sign; if you didn't,
>you could ignore the post.

Oh, come on, Bruce!  You honestly thought that (a) a post like that,
(b) coming from you, (c) involving FurryMUCK could have gotten by here
with scarcely a mention?  Or -- no, let me guess: you had no idea your
post would lead to this, and you really hadn't meant to post it at
all, it was just an accident, but you're not responsible for all the
people who have turned it into a big issue.

>As for using the newsgroup as a source of the information you seek, I suspect
>the view you get is highly skewed... I suggest exchanging email with myself
>and the furry wizards (the people who were actually INVOLVED... not second-hand witnesses who have only heard rumor and speculation) to form a more accurate
>opinion.

I was there when you were being asked to explain your actions.  I seem
to remember that you were (rather persistently, I might add) evading
the question "why did you create one thousand exits" by trying to pin
the blame for something-or-other on Siegfried and Ashtoreth; in fact,
you appeared to be entirely forgetting that Siegfried was running the
mud off his department's machine and therefore you really had no
god-given right to be there and perhaps a little more diplomacy and
courteousness (read: less antipathy) might have tipped things a bit
more in your favor (read: less against you).

And even to this day, you've been maintaining your defensive stance
against all the evyl oppressive furries!  Congratulations, I don't
know that I would have been able to keep up the game this long unless
I really believed I was right, somehow.  Color me *quite* amused by
all of this.  ;)

But seriously: Would you please resolve this soon?  I'm curious to see
this list of the supporters you must have gotten by now; while I'd
like to see you post it here to satisfy the skeptical masses, it
really is something between you and the Furry wizzes.  I think you've
probably gotten coverage enough here and through discussions on
various muds that anyone who'd support you would most likely know of
your petition by now; maybe this weekend you can submit your list to
the Furry wizzes, and we'll see by early next week if they'll let you
back in or not?

It really doesn't matter to me, because you're one of the three people
in the last two-and-a-half years who has earned a permanent /gag entry
in my .tinytalk file and therefore I wouldn't see you even if you did
come back.  I'll probably add this thread to my rn killfile too,
eventually, but right now I'm too amused by the whole debate.  You'd
make a good politician: it doesn't matter whether people say good
things about you or bad things about you, so long as you can get
people to say things about you!

                                             (Sterling/Quayle in '92?)

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