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Followups set to alt.flame

In article <CrF5CB.L4x@espada.chi.il.us>,
Gerry Swetsky <lisbon@vpnet.chi.il.us> wrote:
>In article <2tkbcn$m2g@venus.mcs.com>, Tina Sikorski <tina@MCS.COM> wrote:
>>
>>Which part of "Don't send me any more e-mail" did you fail to understand,
>>Gerry?
>
>    If you don't want E-mail from me, there are numerous ways to
>    implement this.  Karl will be kind enough to explain these to you
>    I'm certain.

Or you, the bastion of Usenet etiquette, COULD have just not sent
me any more e-mail...or do you only scream about Usenet etiquette
if other people do things you don't like?


>
>    Would you care to hear what I think of your posting my private
>    E-mail on the Net?

Under normal circumstances I would not post e-mail to the net.
However....

>    Tina, this is all I intend to say on this subject (pause for the
>    sigh of relief for the audience).  I took our discussion to E-mail
>    so as to abide with the rules of etiqutte on Usenet.  By the way,
>    what day last week did you discover Usenet anyhow?

a) no one asked us to take it to e-mail. If they had, and it were
   in the realm of things that belonged in e-mail, I would have
   cheerfully a) deleted your e-mail on sight and/or b) set up
   a filter to send all mail from you to /dev/null.
b) the discussion was not between you and me. The discussion was posted
   to a newsgroup and was a general statement commenting on my opinion
   about a specific thing that was already being discussed. If it were
   a back-and-forth between you and me (on a personal level), then it
   would have properly been taken to e-mail. Since the discussion was
   on-going and numerous people were contributing to it, that made
   it appropriate for the forum it was in. If you don't understand that
   distinction, then perhaps I should ask you when YOU discovered Usenet.
c) This got posted here because AFTER telling you that I had no desire
   to receive any more e-mail from you, YOU SENT ME MAIL AGAIN. Under
   normal circumstances, I'd e-mail your postmaster....but that wouldn't
   get me anymore in this case, now would it? I think that anyone using
   vpnet or considering doing so might want to know that a person that
   seems to be involved with helping run it doesn't understand this
   sort of thing.