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Re: Departing the list and stuff
On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Eli Algranti wrote:
> This comes somewhat late, but here's my optinion on the subject
> anyway (actually I had written a message earlier, but I have to use
> windows at work, and please don't flame me because of this I'm in
> enough pain as it is, and just as I hit the send button it crashed).
Poor bastard. Funny, actually - Windows knowing that you're supporting a
Windows hater :-).
> Anyway I'd like to support the supporters of Marc, ahh, what the
> hell, I'd like to support Marc (from a safe distance). I may not always
Now this has to end. Enogh of support for me - I feel positively
uncomfortable... I am not used to this :-).
> I find it difficult to believe someone can be offended by such
> replies, to me they seem almost poetic (in a scorching sort of way). I
Oh, my. I am abashed by all this.
> also find it extremely unbecoming for the offended party/ies to try and
> hurt the offendant in real life (virtual wars should stay that way),
> though I'd recon someone must have felt pretty dumb asking for
> someone else to be fired because "he insulted me by mail", I further
No - he did not feel dumb, obviously. In fact, I met the idiot in situ.
He feels wronged and wounded. I sincerely hope to wrong him further.
However, dumb is obviouly not a feeling the thing's capable of
experiencing.
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My opinions are my own and only my own. Standard disclaimer applies.
Marc A. Volovic (marc@cs.huji.ac.il) Linguists do it cunningly
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