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- From: krueger@atto.cs.umn.edu (Alan Krueger)
- Subject: Re: AOL newbies
- Message-ID: <CM95Io.1vs@news.cis.umn.edu>
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- Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
- References: <CM7t61.Kv5@news.cis.umn.edu> <2lb90k$jnv@search01.news.aol.com> <2lbq0j$q87@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 6 Mar 1994 16:52:32 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- In article <2lbq0j$q87@samba.oit.unc.edu> Deb.West@launchpad.unc.edu (West) writes:
- >In article <2lb90k$jnv@search01.news.aol.com>,
- >Beachwalkr <beachwalkr@aol.com> wrote:
-
- [attribution indenting and intro line added]
- >>In article <CM7t61.Kv5@news.cis.umn.edu>, Alan Krueger <krueger@cs.umn.edu> wrote:
- >>>Behold, the "information superhighway" is here, and our relatively quiet
- >>>country roads are being changed into smoking, flat asphalt buzzing with
- >>>Delphioids and AOLites.<<<
-
- >> EXCUSE ME?!?!?!?!?!?! I've been on the net just about as long as anybody, and
- >>I for one am glad to see AOL now has the newsgroups.... Those 2 months
- >>responces may be a responce that hasn't been said yet and it may be one that
- >>could help someone...
-
- ...and are completely off-topic anyway, so it's pretty academic.
-
- >> You, me, and EVERYONE else that reads this and every other newsgroup was a
- >>"newbie" at some time too...
- >>
- >> I've been lurking on this board for about 6 months now gathering info, and
- >>while I hate to waste the bandwidth writing this, its almost justified by what
- >>you posted...
- >>
- >>Beach out . . . . .
-
- Gee, if you want to get worked up over something so much, move over to a good
- newsgroup like alt.nuke-the-USA (sp?), they could use someone with as much
- righteous indignation as you.
-
- >Relax, take a break, go get some chocolate ice cream. Beachwalkr's not
- >worth getting worked up about. He's (she's?) just had a nasty vision of
- >his/her probable future as roadkill on the info superhighway...under the
- >wheels of some Delphinoid's or AOLer's brand new virtual lamborghini...and
- >so he/she thoughtlessly posted an original (*not repost!*) piece to
- >a.b.o.i. This sort of thing happens all the time...;-)
-
- From the context of your reply, it seems you're getting your attributions
- mixed up. And I did not "thoughtlessly" post a non-reposted article: I've
- been attempting for a year and a half to get this group back on-topic. There
- just comes a time when you have to give up. (Or move to moderation, ala
- alt.humor.best-of-usenet, which seems to be better named anyway.)
-
- I'm quite certain there are sensible Delphi and AOL users, but they don't
- predominate. I do not refer to _all_ of them, just the loud, vocal majority
- that seem to broadcast their ignorance to the world so well.
-
- As an upside to this, we should at least see quite a few more articles being
- posted everywhere that are wonderful candidates to be reposted here. (HINT!)
- --
- William Alan Krueger | krueger@cs.umn.edu, krue0052@gold.tc.umn.edu
- Graduate Student | "I've never been the kind / To close an open mind"
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