🚀 go-pugleaf

First and foremost, I wrote an article dealing quite specifically with
a news.admin.policy question.  It was written exclusively to n.a.p
with no redirected followup.  Yet the largely content-free response to
that note from Monsieur Argic managed to blossom into a posting to
	talk.politics.mideast,talk.politics.soviet,soc.culture.greek,
	soc.culture.europe,soc.history,soc.culture.soviet,news.admin.policy
with followups aimed at soc.culture.turkish.  And the response still
had no relation whatever to my reason for posting.  Yet he purports to
take me to task for "not addressing...points made" -- the pot calls the
kettle black...when the kettle isn't made of iron in the first place.

I do declare, that's not cricket.

I wrote:
     >Anything said in response to SA (hm, interesting initials... :-) gets
     >a "you humiliate yourself" sort of response back from him.  He flames

sera@zuma.uucp writes in response:
     Where in the world did you dig up the above rhetoric?

Oh, I don't know, maybe in <9212242253@zuma.UUCP> where you wrote
	You have the right to terminate conversations with people who make
	you feel put down and humiliated
to someone who didn't earn any such appellation.  Or possibly we
should try
	Subject: "Rawlinson" utterly humiliates "Spiros
		 Triantafyllopoulos" of "delco"
in <9212242257@zuma.UUCP>.

     By the way, you are still not addressing the original
     points made.

Of course not, child, nor do I have any intention of doing so.  You
seem to think that I'm taking you seriously; that is a grave error on
your part.  Go away, son, you're beginning to bore me.

If you want to argue politics, stick to the talk.* newsgroups.  If you
want to talk about Usenet administration policy, keep your responses
on-topic and in n.a.p only; the two sets of newsgroups have no
intersection.  At the moment, I can't think of a single thing you've
said lately which has the slightest thing to do with n.a.p.

--karl,
designing a Penalty which is both efficient
and lacks any newsadmin access requirements