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In article <7752@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:

>This is my response to an email message I received. (name removed to protect
>the guilty). I think it goes to show how childish at least one of the r.m.s
>types is, and how far he will go to torpedo a legitimate voting result just
>because he doesn't like it. 
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>> In the process of reviewing my current report on fraud, waste and abuses in the
>> DOD funding systems, I have decided to include a section on DOD involvement
>> woith the internet.  I have been collecting all the recent posts from r.m.s.
>> and I intend to use them as evidence that DOD funding of the system is not in
>> its own best interest.

God, this sounds familiar.  From mail I received this afternoon:

 You people on UNIX machines wit usenet access and
 newsreaders don't realize how hard participating in group is.  When I get into
 work in the morning and log on I generally see about 35-70 e-mail messages
 waiting for me from r.m.s.  I open each one and scan the header page (which
 is actually about 28 lines in my case because of all the gateways the email
 goes through before it gets to me).

This character apparently isn't aware of the volume of mailing lists I
subscribed to in my youth.

 If the subject line doesn't interest me
 (or in the case of a CFV mentioning rec.music.makers, mean anything to me)
 I delete it.

I still need to know why on earth it should make a difference to
someone like this *what* the name of the group is.

 If you people didn't keep saying 'these are the
 rules and you gotta obey the rules' and instead agreed that there is a problem
 in the way the announcement was made, I think that Dave (and everybody else
 who is concerned) would tone down a bit.  As it is, I am officially voicing
 a complaint to the fraud, waste, and abuse people at DOD, concerning the
 uses of the internet, and the wasrte in funding that it may really be.

Hmm.  Wonder why that sounds familiar ...

Is there something about wpafb.af.mil that causes people to go, er,
ballistic?  I've suddenly begun receiving these unbelievably venemous
(and, in some cases, unreplyable) messages from that domain.  Maybe it
has something to do with their Commander-In-Chief being so suddenly
removed from office ...

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