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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!telly!druid!pseudo!mjn From: mjn@pseudo.uucp (Murray Nesbitt) Subject: Re: Status of 386BSD 0.1 Organization: Private system Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1992 03:39:10 GMT Message-ID: <MJN.92Jul18193910@pseudo.uucp> In-Reply-To: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu's message of 15 Jul 92 00:12:39 GMT References: <58775@mimsy.umd.edu> <13v74tINNdni@agate.berkeley.edu> <58843@mimsy.umd.edu> <13vqhnINNhc4@agate.berkeley.edu> Sender: mjn@pseudo.uucp (Murray Nesbitt) Lines: 50 In article <13vqhnINNhc4@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes: > Funny, a number of people have already written me telling me I let > you off too easily. And if you can't take a bit of sarcasm, perhaps > you had better be more careful when posting to netnews. You put your > foot in your mouth. All I did is make you chomp down on it. And > if it hurts your pride a bit now, you had better thank your lucky > stars that I did it in a humorous way. At least you have a bit of > your foot left (well, maybe not from your following posting). Indeed. [ A bunch more juvenile drivel deleted ]. > >Second, why must you respond to every little criticism (real, or in the my > >case, misconstrued) with propaganda about how wonderful you are and > >invective about how injured you are? Give us a break, please. > Oh, poor baby. Still sore about my little message back there? Funny, > I didn't say anything about how "wonderful" we are. In fact, I talked > about how wonderfully supportive, encouraging and enthusiastic you are, > didn't I? [ ... ] > Yet you seem to want to have an "in-your-face" confrontation about something > that through your actions clearly should mean absolutely nothing to you. [ ... ] > What is your problem? [ ... ] > Glory? Undying gratitude? You've got to be kidding. After dealing > with people like you, who needs glory? What a jerk - a real class act. I won't mention any names, but I think *some* people around here ought to get a little more sleep, and lay off the caffeine. Take your extra steam and blow it off on a racquetball court. I've followed this thread from message 1 (unless something *really* outrageous didn't make it to my site). I don't think I've ever seen someone misinterpret and overreact to a posting to this degree. Murray -- Until my site's in the maps, please reply to "druid!pseudo!mjn".