NOTICE FROM THE LIST HOST (re: recent political commentary)

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Tue Aug 21 14:20:05 2001

It all depends on whose ox is being gored, doesn't it? If it's yours, look out,
but it is, after all, the other guy's interests that don't matter.

While I admit to participating in an occasional LONG OT thread, it's seldom
occurred when I wasn't "drawn out" by one specific individual (who shall remain
nameless), not that it's entirely his fault ...

While I agree that it's often useful to have available machinery and components
announced on the list, I would favor the deletion of promotion of other
commercial activity of any sort whatsoever. There are, after all, other venues
for shameless promotion of commercial activity.

While everybody occasionally responds strongly to a part of a post, not having
read the thing in its entirety, and certainly not having considered its meaning
completely either, a lot of the traffic could be eliminated if folks would
simply think before they type. This is more easily said than done, however.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: NOTICE FROM THE LIST HOST (re: recent political commentary)


> On August 21, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > Look, R.D. You are the exact type of fellow I was thinking about the
> > other day when I talked about socially retarded people. You, as much as I
> > have been trying to keep myself from saying all this time, are incredibly,
> > indelibly, without a doubt and with a mandate from GOD himself, a SOCIALLY
> > RETARDED individual. You have NO fucking manners whatsoever, you take
> > EVERY opportunity to foist your pointless and tasteless opinions on
> > everyone else here, with little regard for OUR preferences, showing
> > absolute disrespect to everyone here. You are a SAD, SAD individual. I'm
> > sorry you didn't get that pony you always wanted, but we should NOT be
> > held prisoner by your horrid personality. You are an ASS. An ASSSSSSSSS!
>
> I can feel the love on this list.
>
> -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire
> Laurel, MD
>
>
Received on Tue Aug 21 2001 - 14:20:05 BST