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- From: wwhitman@nevada.edu (MICHAEL WISE)
- Subject: Re: *Any* kind of r.a.b split, or at least a *serious* discussion
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.175831.28627@nevada.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:58:31 GMT
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- I'd have to agree with Mark. The reason r.a.b is the way it is is
- because the people who are interested in it are interested in questions
- beyond what was the last book you read. It seems the calls for a new
- group come from those who don't participate in the group. At the risk
- of sounding like a bad host, the reason the posters like this group is
- because there are extended, deep, philosophical discussions of issues
- and randy, shallow, meaningless, pithy bantering. We like it that way.
- I follow this group to the exclusion of others, mostly because I get
- tired of people who are too lazy to pick up a telephone or go to a
- library or even look up something in the dictionary, and instead post
- to the net. Rec.travel, my other newsgroup, is filled with requests
- for information, and almost no discussion goes on.
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- That's what the newbies want, a completely information based newsgroup
- just like all the others. Or at least that's what they claim. More-
- over, there seems to be a belligerent attitude among them, like we
- have been denying them something. These newbies have been very rude to
- all concerned. Mark Taranto is a rare breed, a true gentleman, who
- will often clear his posts with the potential offendees ahead of time.
- I didn't feel he needed to apologize to Heather (After having her
- flame me over Gertrude Stein, a pet peeve of mine, I don't care
- much about Heather's feelings), but he did, and I have a great
- deal of repect for him doing it. Heather, lacking any sense of
- decorum or propriety, proceeds to blast him to hell without so much
- as a 'Humph' at his apology.
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- I don't understand where these people come off. They enter a room and
- decide that because they don't like it there, so the rest of us just have
- to stop whatever we were doing and pick up what they want to do. I know
- what to do with guests like that. Throw them out.
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- ___________________________________________________________________________
- Michael Wise (wwhitman@nevada.edu) UNLV English
-
- "Now I want you to tell me just one thing more. Why do you hate the South?"
- "I dont hate it," Quentin said quickly, at once, immediately; "I dont
- hate it," he said. I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air,
- the iron New England dark: I dont. I dont. I dont hate it! I dont hate it!
- --William Faulkner, Absalom! Absalom!
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