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- From: Sten M. Drescher <smd@hrt216.brooks.af.mil>
- Subject: Re: yes or no? (bot deopping)
- In-Reply-To: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au's message of 18 Dec 92 06: 25:14 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:47:39 GMT
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- On 18 Dec 92 06:25:14 GMT, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed) said:
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- ># Consider the recent case where person Page (an operator) was killed
- >by # person SpUr (another operator) who was then killed by person
- >Gwydion # (another operator) and to end it all, person SpUr then
- >squit'd the # server that person Page was on.
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- Gwydion>At no point did I kill SpUr, as you have claimed.
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- Darren> Read it again. No such claim was made.
-
- I read it again. It says SpUr killed Page, Gwydion killed
- SpUr, SpUr squitted Page.
-
- Darren> Maybe you got your
- Darren> pronouns mixed up, Page was the subject of the first sentence
- Darren> and to which the "who" is refered to. But that is just a
- Darren> trivial point. If my grammar is lacking and I've got it wrong
- Darren> then I'll rewrite it for you:
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- Darren> Page killed Spur (stupid reason); Gwydion killed Page for
- Darren> killing Spur (another stpuid reason); Spur squits the server
- Darren> Page is on (the most stupid reason of the three).
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- NOW you're not saying that Gwydion killed Page. It looks like
- YOU confused yourself with the 'was killed by' construction.
-