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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. 

---MAV                              (finger for PGP signature block)
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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