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In article <325DABB7.445B@idsonline.com>, <mrvette@idsonline.com> writes:
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> From: Gene Slater <mrvette@idsonline.com>
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> Subject: Re: Please help me choose a new Service Provider
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 22:06:47 -0400
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> 
> Karen Mercedes wrote:
> > 
> > No, you unimaginative little twerp, the "e-mail me" was because I knew my
> > request was off-topic
> > for the newsgroups I posted to, and was an attempt to keep responses from
> > cluttering up those newsgroups.
> > 
> > I cannot *BELIEVE* the way some people will turn an innocent request for
> > help, which they neither have to read or reply to (no-one's holding a gun
> > to your head, bro'), into flame bait.
> > 
> > Are you as much of a curmudgeon in real life, or do you save it all for us
> > unfortunates who happen to enjoy the Internet?
> > 
> > Karen Mercedes
> > 
> > =====
> > 
> > On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, it was written:
> > 
> > > In article <53cj7o$gf3@news2.cais.com>,
> > > Joe <no_email_spam@please> amazed us with:
> > > >Karen Mercedes <mercedes@access.digex.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>Sorry to post this off-topic post to so many dc. groups, but I figure it's
> > > >>the only way to find other DC Internet users who may be able to help me.
> > > >
> > > >Hasn't anyone noticed that it's exceptionally arrogant of Karen
> > > >Mercedes to expect everyone on dc.driving, dc.general, dc.biking,
> > > >dc.romance, dc.forsale, dc.housing, dc.jobs, dc.org.linux-users,
> > > >dc.politics,dc.redskins,dc.talk.guns,dc.music, and
> > > >alt.internet.services to drop everything they're doing and help her
> > > >find an internet service provider?
> > >
> > > What I found arrogant is the "E-mail me" that implies she can't even be
> > > bothered to read one of the MANY groups posted to.
> > >
> > > Which is why she didn't get my $.02 worth.
> > >
> > > >How hard is it to do a little research on one's own?   Or to first ask
> > > >the question on one newsgroup where the question's at least slightly
> > > >relevant?
> > >
> > > Follow-ups to dc.flam^H^H^H^Hgeneral.
> > > --
> > > "He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both
> > > eyes ..."
> > >
> > >or a 1/2" wide scratch pad for narrow minded bastards......
> 
geez... relax a little folks. It's OK. Just a news post. No big deal