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From: dorayme on 10 Jun 2010 19:38 In article <4c10da54$0$18702$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, Warren Oates <warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote: > In article <dorayme-204ED3.11413310062010(a)news.albasani.net>, > dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > > In some Mac usenet groups there are a great number of people who > > carry on like this. There must be a gas that emanates from their > > Macs that affects them. The Macs that ship to Australia lack this > > gas as can be seen by the civil and gentle and affectionate > > character of OZ Mac users... <g> > > The Macs that ship to Oz have their gas removed by your government > censors, no? Gee, maybe you are right, Australian governments are so hell bent on nannying the citizenry in almost everything. I was thinking Apple merely took the opportunity to save money and leave it out for such a far flung colony. -- dorayme
From: Jolly Roger on 11 Jun 2010 00:35 In article <jwolf6589-2A5F14.22144910062010(a)nntp.charter.net>, John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > Golly! Dont they ever stop talking about me? Stop posting, and I bet nobody here will even think of you. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Mike Rosenberg on 11 Jun 2010 08:16 John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > Golly! Dont they ever stop talking about me? Do you have the intellectual capability to see what they're saying about you and why? Apparently not. -- Favorite yoga position: Rosh hashavasana, the high holy pose Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi>
From: Bill Braun on 11 Jun 2010 09:35 Wader of Doom wrote: > John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > > [...] > >> Golly! Dont they ever stop talking about me? >> -- >> Are there errors [remainder of proselytising .sig deleted] > > Tell me, John; have you ever heard of alt.usenet.kooks? > Not a one of you has any self control, and he's playing you for fools. I rather think he' s won this round. Bill B
From: George Kerby on 11 Jun 2010 09:57
On 6/10/10 9:14 PM, in article jwolf6589-2A5F14.22144910062010(a)nntp.charter.net, "John" <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > In article <1jjv4u2.i15qg81v3akhaN%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, > mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > >> Bill Braun <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: >> >>>> If this were the first time John made such a post, I would absolutely >>>> agree with you. For that matter, though, if it were the first time, >>>> Jolly Roger would not have responded as he did, either. >>>> >>>> However, John has made such posts over and over to comp.sys.mac.system, >>>> sometimes crossposted to comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, sometimes >>>> not. Each time he's done that he's been told, politely at first, >>>> increasingly less politely with each iteration, that he needs to check >>>> out his page at http://validator.w3.org/ and fix the problems it >>>> indicates. >>>> >>>> It becomes clearer each time, at least to me, that he's doing this as a >>>> way of making off-topic posts about his opinions on religion. >>> >>> So, to put this succinctly, as I become increasingly annoyed >>> with your behavior, I gain the right to treat you in an >>> incivil way and demean you as a human being. Does that sum >>> it up? >> >> Yes, actually, it does. If I continue to behave in an inappropriate >> manner despite being told that's what I'm doing, I think it's perfectly >> understandable that people would lose they're tempers with me and I'd >> deserve the responses I got. I accept that actions, my own included, >> have consequences. >> >>> So, I can do this with you, too, right? I don't need to >>> justify my annoyance, all I need is to have a reason inside >>> my own head, than I can speak ill of you and use foul >>> language toward you. >> >> No THAT is not what I said in my previous post. John initially received >> polite, helpful responses to his posts, and Jolly Roger, the person to >> whom you responded, was among the people trying to help John. The level >> of annoyance expressed in his, and most everyone else's, responses to >> John gradually increased over time. Bear in mind that John has been >> doing this for weeks, if not months, and it's only part of what he's >> been doing, which also includes telling us he's too busy to look up >> things he could easily answer himself, such as prices for software. > > > Golly! Dont they ever stop talking about me? Yep. People still talk about David Koresh and Jim Jones as well... |