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In article <11AUG199216234510@vms.huji.ac.il> rwerman@vms.huji.ac.il (ROBERT WERMAN) writes:
>
> Dr. Yigal Arens, arens@ISI.EDU, in message <22164@venera.isi.edu>, writes:
>
> >And please stop trying to redirect my response to some obscure
> >newsgroup.  If you want to move the discussion somewhere else, start by
> >posting your reply there.  I realize that will not get you "the last
> >word" in TPM, but at least it's the honest way to do it.
>
> I posted to three newsgroups, as far as I know, talk.politics.mideast,
> misc.headlines, and talk.politics.misc.  Which of these is obscure?
>
> In fact I used the reply function and my poster did not recognize some
> of the groups, alt.activism, I think one of them was, used in Dr. Arens'
> post.

Yes, you POSTED to the groups you mention, but your recent posts
(including the one I'm responding to now!) have had their "Followup-To"
set to misc.headlines.  Anyone can check this for themselves.

> What is going on here?

That's what I asked.

> If I were Dr. Arens, who is well versed in ad hominem arguments, and
> reverts to them whenever he begins to flail about in deep waters, I
> might have a ready answer.

It's good to see that you have your own repertoire of ad hominem
arguments at your disposal.
--
Yigal Arens   "He seems like an average type of man.  He's not, like, smart.
USC/ISI        I'm not trying to bag on him or anything, but he has the same
arens@isi.edu  mentality I have -- and I'm in the eighth grade."     Vanessa
               Martinez, after VP Quayle's visit to her school-LA Times 5/21