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- From: thom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Thomas Clancy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Another Bad IRC experience...
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 03:39:47 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- On or about Mon, 1 Jan 1996 12:06:38 GMT, G. Baldwin (drizzit@eskimo.com) did proclaim:
- ( Thomas Clancy (thom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
-
- ( : Ah, there's that phrase again "get a clue". Bah! I think you should have
- ( : half a measure of that yourself. I'm not talking about an IRC Op, the
- ( : mere fact you even mentioned the above shows you really don't know why
- ( : you even responded to my post. I'll give you `a clue': Punishing others
- ( : for the actions of one is wrong.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ( ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ( Well, for your sake, don't join the military. During basic training,
- ( you are often punished because of the actions of others. It does 2
- ( things - (1) Make it so that you don't do dumb things, because you
- ( know what it feels like when you are punished for somebody else's dumb
- ( things (2) If you are continuously doing dumb things, you're comrades
- ( around you 'give you a little insentive' to quit doing those things.
-
- Sorry, but there is no "incentive" involved. The military does it
- because a mistake YOU make may cost a platoon (others) their lives.
- Unfortunately, the "comrades" of the idiot responsible for the ban being
- set are not aware, and unable to coerce the offender.
-
- ( The simple fact is this - the argument is getting old. This thread,
-
- Agreed
-
- ( or at least other like it, have been going on for quite some time.
- ( And the simple fact remains - if you don't like what is going on in
- ( EfNet #amiga, don't go there! IRC is a privilege to use, and IRC Ops
-
- Exactly, and it's a privilege for the Ops to use, too. So your point?
-
-
- ( and Channel Ops are there to give some kind of support to the
- ( controlled chaos in there. Its is a type of 'government'. But with
-
- Sure, understood. But noone is arguing against that.
-
- ( all governments, some people will be upset. Get used to it - its
- ( called reality. If you can't handle whats going on in #amiga, or
- ( treat it as the minor thing it is, then I suggest that you go out into
- ( the real world and see how it works.
-
- And just what color is the sun in your world? Reality bites.
-
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