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Re: and people wonder why im angry

#2952
From: Red-Jaguar
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 03:07
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In article <3916m7$rl5@inferno.mpx.com.au>,
Rosie Cross <rosiex@jolt.mpx.com.au> wrote:
>John Gibbons (jgibbons@bvision.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>: In article <38okac$m3c@inferno.mpx.com.au>
>:            rosiex@jolt.mpx.com.au "Rosie Cross" writes:
>
>: > **** please post your disapproval to Dwayne about his language and 
>: > attitude.., if you agree with him, Id rather not hear from you,..with 
>: > thanks.RosieX
>
>: Does anybody think this woman isn't bananas?
>
>  Yeah me.! :) Im not bananas about wanting to see cyberspace used
>  appropriately and positively.

Of course not. 
But where there is debate tempers will get out of hand at times.

> I suspect you have no idea or do you
>  care about the degree to which "cyberspace" has deteriorated

HAS deteriorated????
   I disagree.
I have been wandering about cyber-space since back in the early 80's when 
all the inexpensive modems led to a boom in BBSes.
If you think the flame fest is worse now, I would disagree.
If anything it has mellowed a bit with age.

> into
>  some sort of rack 'em and stack 'em murder death kill text based
>  adventure game. Personally I am finding the huff and puff pseudo
>  politics of worrying about *policy* pail into insignificance juxtaposed
>  against the text based trend of anger and adversariality. You know
>  so many non-users imagine the net to be this wonderful electronic
>  community of creativity and support. This is simply not true.

It can be. 
You just don't expect to find such on highly conterversial groups.

>  With so many new users about to jack_in why should we leave this
>  place for them like a picnic ground of campers who don't care
>  about cleaning up after themselves. Oh btw the "she's nuts" tag
>  reminds me of someone..:)

Jaguar
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From: bast@access3.digex.net (Red-Jaguar)
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Subject: Re: and people wonder why im angry
Date: 31 Oct 1994 22:07:08 -0500
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