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#! rnews 3351
Newsgroups: alt.best.of.internet
Path: netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!atto!krueger
From: krueger@atto.cs.umn.edu (Alan Krueger)
Subject: Re: AOL newbies
Message-ID: <CM95Io.1vs@news.cis.umn.edu>
Sender: news@news.cis.umn.edu (Usenet News Administration)
Nntp-Posting-Host: atto.cs.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
References: <CM7t61.Kv5@news.cis.umn.edu> <2lb90k$jnv@search01.news.aol.com> <2lbq0j$q87@samba.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 16:52:32 GMT
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In article <2lbq0j$q87@samba.oit.unc.edu> Deb.West@launchpad.unc.edu (West) writes:
>In article <2lb90k$jnv@search01.news.aol.com>,
>Beachwalkr <beachwalkr@aol.com> wrote:
[attribution indenting and intro line added]
>>In article <CM7t61.Kv5@news.cis.umn.edu>, Alan Krueger <krueger@cs.umn.edu> wrote:
>>>Behold, the "information superhighway" is here, and our relatively quiet
>>>country roads are being changed into smoking, flat asphalt buzzing with
>>>Delphioids and AOLites.<<<
>> EXCUSE ME?!?!?!?!?!?! I've been on the net just about as long as anybody, and
>>I for one am glad to see AOL now has the newsgroups.... Those 2 months
>>responces may be a responce that hasn't been said yet and it may be one that
>>could help someone...
...and are completely off-topic anyway, so it's pretty academic.
>> You, me, and EVERYONE else that reads this and every other newsgroup was a
>>"newbie" at some time too...
>>
>> I've been lurking on this board for about 6 months now gathering info, and
>>while I hate to waste the bandwidth writing this, its almost justified by what
>>you posted...
>>
>>Beach out . . . . .
Gee, if you want to get worked up over something so much, move over to a good
newsgroup like alt.nuke-the-USA (sp?), they could use someone with as much
righteous indignation as you.
>Relax, take a break, go get some chocolate ice cream. Beachwalkr's not
>worth getting worked up about. He's (she's?) just had a nasty vision of
>his/her probable future as roadkill on the info superhighway...under the
>wheels of some Delphinoid's or AOLer's brand new virtual lamborghini...and
>so he/she thoughtlessly posted an original (*not repost!*) piece to
>a.b.o.i. This sort of thing happens all the time...;-)
From the context of your reply, it seems you're getting your attributions
mixed up. And I did not "thoughtlessly" post a non-reposted article: I've
been attempting for a year and a half to get this group back on-topic. There
just comes a time when you have to give up. (Or move to moderation, ala
alt.humor.best-of-usenet, which seems to be better named anyway.)
I'm quite certain there are sensible Delphi and AOL users, but they don't
predominate. I do not refer to _all_ of them, just the loud, vocal majority
that seem to broadcast their ignorance to the world so well.
As an upside to this, we should at least see quite a few more articles being
posted everywhere that are wonderful candidates to be reposted here. (HINT!)
--
William Alan Krueger | krueger@cs.umn.edu, krue0052@gold.tc.umn.edu
Graduate Student | "I've never been the kind / To close an open mind"
Computer Science Dept. | - "Free Time," Michael Penn
University of Minnesota | "Hellllllooooooooooooooo, Nurse!" - Warner Bros.