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In article <1992Dec14.130734.8055@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> dave@jato.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
>jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
>>If the readers of alt.folklore.computers are knowledgeable enough about the
>>meaning of subject lines 'n' stuff to be able to rise up and defend their
>>group, why should the synth people be treated as clueless idiots incapable of
>>any comprehension of USENET hijinks whatsoever?  
>
>Hey...choose your names carefully! Try "innocent novices unaware of what a
>name change can do" instead of "clueless idiots"...unless that was a freudian
>slip of the fingers of course. (Betraying your real feelings?)

No, my real feelings on this issue are that this is one of the most
pathetic examples of making a mountain out of a molehill that I've ever
seen.  You're assuming that the average rec.music.synth reader had an IQ
about that of the common woodchuck (no flames from rec.humor.oracle.d
people, please), and that it truly makes a difference whether we stick the
word "makers" in there or not.  Let the issue die!  There're starving
people in Somalia, Dave, think of all the lives you could save if you
spent the time that you _currently_ spend flaming people about the
renaming soliciting donations for famine relief!  

>
>[C'mon man...I thought you were "Jay Maynard Flamer Association HQ". You've
>got to do better than that...you left yourself wide open...Jay'll roast you
>alive if you're that careless.]

He can _try_.  However, as USENET's native australopithecine, Jay cannot
handle higher concepts such as logic and common sense and will fail
miserably if he enters a battle of wits half-armed.

>Certainly the alt.folklore people know exactly that an alt group will be
>rmgrouped (and we all know how successful _that_ will be) based on an
>unmoderation of a Usenet group. And this isn't even written anywhere in
>guidelines or newbie docs or anything. This is a REAL BIG CLUE that people
>in that group are uncommonly aware of USENET politics...unlike 80% of the 
>groups out there now. 
>
>Which proves my points about elitism exactly...or let me use a better word...
>FAVORITISM. Think about it. 

I did think about it, Dave.  I think you're right, too.  Elvis _is_ alive
in Paraguay training commandos to storm the Bastille and free Napoleon.

Let the issue drop.  Please.