RE: Lamer [WAS: RE: win95 (an appology)]

[RICHARD FRIEDMAN <RFRIEDMAN salant com>]

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Chuck Mead [SMTP:chuck moongroup com]
	Sent:	Saturday, July 31, 1999 11:49 PM
	To:	redhat-list redhat com
	Subject:	Re: Lamer [WAS: RE: win95 (an appology)]

	On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Greg Thomas spewed into the bitstream:

	> 
	> > Ya know gang, I've noticed that periodically someone on this
list engages
	> > in behavior that is typically outrageous in some fashion,
accompanied
	> > closely by rudeness, though I must say the post from Master
MacCraw was
	> > waaay beyond rude.  He was able to show the posterior portion of
his
	> > anatomy seemingly with no effort at all.  Kinda scary.
	> 
	> I wouldn't be surprised if the original poster and MacCraw are
just two
	> paranoid MS fanatic buddies trying to stir up trouble.  Too me the
	> original post was too lame to not be inflammatory.  Nobody, not
even the
	> most ignorant Win95 person in the world posts a question like "I'm
having
	> trouble booting Win95, can you help me" to a non-MS newsgroup or
list.   

	My impression was that the original poster was not a native english
speaker and
	he/she was just kind of limping along on the list. It wasn't his/her
only post
	and they all seemed to have a definite newbie flavor about them. The
language
	command wasn't what you'd expect from someone who's native tongue
was english.
	That was fine and the list is normally so friendly the poster
probably felt
	comfortable asking the M$ question. Most of the other responses
he/she got to
	that post were a bit "tongue in cheek" :-) but McCraw took offense
which (from
	what I could see) was exactly what he came to the list to do.

	I think that all of his posts (to this and one other thread that I
saw) were
	trolls and I really don't care much about that but I'm not gonna
leave the bad
	language alone... none of us should... we don't have to tolerate it!

	Just my $00.02!

Hmmm... almost exactly the same things I just posted.

You sure you weren't standing over my shoulder as I typed?

:-)

Rick Friedman
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