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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!mole-end!mat
- From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
- Subject: Re: FAQ maintainer needs some leverage on Dell
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.212539.24147@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Summary: A diplomat is a man who ...
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- References: <1992Aug2.140227.12578@phillip.edu.au> <1992Aug13.024432.14841@hp1.holl.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:25:39 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1992Aug13.024432.14841@hp1.holl.com>, dave@hp1.holl.com (David Vrona) writes:
- > In article <1hLvGO#44MpZl1CRNdW4HT8OT1dpdM2=esr@snark.thyrsus.com> esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
- > >In <1992Aug3.133049.14513@virtech.uucp> Conor P. Cahill wrote:
- > >> I don't think there was any less offensive way to say what I said. I was
- > >> plainly stating my opinion (the use of the word *think* should have made
- > >> that clear) as to what I thought of this attempt at coercion.
- > >Coercion?!?
- > >You really are a blithering idiot.
-
- > > Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
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- > Anyone who has been around this group knows better. You really sealed your
- > fate this time Mr. Raymond.
-
-
- A diplomat is a man who can tell you to go to hell, make
- you pay for the privilege, and leave you happy with the
- great deal you've gotten.
-
- It's true that Mr. Raymond seems to be in the business of selling
- things that people could get free, and of being given neat stuff
- for saying what he thinks. But he seems to be successful, and to
- be having some fun besides.
-
- I for one am jealous of his business acumen.
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
-
- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-