On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> No, you misunderstood. I said the offenders (the US off-topic people)
> are seen as "being blatantly improper, rude, offensive, or whatever." I
> do get irritated by the people that see it this way.
Chad, I feel this way about ANYONE who starts an off-topic discussion, be
they American, Chinese, Mexican or Arab. But I've learned from past
experience that it is pointless to try to fight it. Those that indulge in
the off-topic discussions will do it because they are perhaps rude and
selfish.
It's true that the best advice is to ignore it and move on to the next
message, and eventually the thread will die. But I found it necessary to
create another off-topic thread to object to your objection (thus proving
I am guilty too, ergo rude and selfish :)
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> I like your sig BTW.
Thanks, it's all true. In fact, I am the pilot of the EP-3, writing this
message from confinement on Hainan Island in China. Luckily they gave us
e-mail access so we could communicate with friends and family back home,
but I took advantage of the opportunity to catch up on ClassicCmp
messages. Bandwidth is limited here, so that's why I'm getting peeved at
all this off-topic discussion about the incident (which, by the way, I
cannot talk about for obvious reasons :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Received on Mon Apr 09 2001 - 18:40:10 BST