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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Re: this has got to stop
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.132548.776@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 13:25:48 EST
- References: <1hvtvbINNgti@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services
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- In article <1hvtvbINNgti@agate.berkeley.edu>, jeff@emily10.Berkeley.EDU (Jeffrey C. Ely) writes:
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- > Please, everybody just ignore this asshole. The inference people fail to make
- > which keeps this guy around is that *only an idiot* would behave this way!
- > That means that it is a waste of time dealing with him. And I dont mean it is
- > a waste of time because you wont convince himn he is an idiot, that is
- > already obvious. What I mean is it is a waste of time dealing with him
- > because his opinion is worthless. WHO CARES WHAT THIS GUY THINKS!!
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- > The next time you get pissed off at what a total asshole this guy is and get
- > ready to write a response, go through the following thought experiment first:
- > Think of what this guy must be like in person. Imagine how you would react
- > to him if you met him in person. You'd probably just laugh at the guy as
- > a poor deluded guy who just gets on your nerves. You'd want him to go away.
- > You'd realize that fueling his idiotic need for attention will just keep
- > him around. So you'd ignore him. Let's try to do that here.
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- > Please. Don't respond to anything he says. If anything, just do it out of
- > curiousity to see what he'll do if he has no one to irritate.
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- > Jeffrey Ely
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- Jeff, you go first.
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