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In article <4630jr$n14@newsbf02.news.aol.com> cyronwode@aol.com (Cyronwode) writes:
>
>Uh...does the phrase "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will
>never hurt me" ring a bell with you? Why do you think that phrase is a
>part of our vocabulary? Could it be because most of us realize -- through
>experience -- that there is a true difference between physical threats and
>verbal taunting? 

Uh, babe, after years of dealing with customer issues, and believe me, I've
seem some whoppers, your vitriolic message caused even me to raise an eyebrow.
You can apologize and kowtow all you want: it still doesn't excuse the fact
that you're not the most pleasant type of human being, taking out your 
frustrations on someone you obviously thought you had some power over.  But 
not only that: your ego needed the massaging of exposing your poor victim to 
his peers.  Why else post here?

But guess what: he wasn't a victim, you weren't the hero, and now you're
despised.  Well, that's the way some things work out.  Saddam Hussein took
on Kuwait, you took on Fletcher Mattox.  And now his friends have come to
his defense.  It speaks volumes that he hasn't had to post a single message
in rebuttal.

Time to get used to it and move on with life.  


>Sorry, but you are SERIOUSLY mistaken in your analogous attribution of
>causality here. I apologized FIRST. Several days LATER (4 days on my
>server) 

Well, your server's AOL, so that's worth about what it cost us.  Uh, what did
it cost you, again? 


>Granted, i have earned some enmity for my original post, which i deeply
>regret -- and, judging by writers such as yourself, i am the *subject* of
>some enmity, but i cannot accept that i have "earned" enmity for
>FLETCHER'S actions. 

Well, given that most of us are relatively bright people, and I've noticed 
quite a few Old Names coming to HIS defense, I wonder why everyone's 
criticising your actions.


>> Start up your own well-managed 
>> gateway, maybe you'll get forgiven... but I wouldn't count on it.
>
>To tell the truth, being "forgiven" by people who cannot think straight,
>and/or who argue from specious analogies, and/or who may be deliberately
>twisting facts to suit a flawed premise is not a high priority on my list
>of life goals.  

If you don't want to watch people bitch about you, and if you've determined
that our opinions don't amount to anything, why the plaintive attempts to keep
salvaging your rep?  It's not going to work: and it probably reflects another
aspect of that sad little girl who tried to intimidate what she thought was
a faceless civil servant.

This flame war has now entered level 3: net.psychoanalysis.



PS: The reason *I* dislike you is because you DID incite cs.utexas.edu's
withdrawal of its gateway, which has already caused a backlog of messages on
newsgroups I administer, and still has me scratching my head on what the 
best alternative would be for the loss of such a simple and elegant news
posting mechanism.  This will end up costing me dozens of hours as I imple-
ment new processes and software.  You were whining about losing two messages
for what, alt.lucky?  Where do I send the bill for MY lost time?

Bah.


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