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To: "Ian St. John" <istjohn AT high-sense DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: Long name support in DOS
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 17:08:55 -0700
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At 08:53  6/8/1998 -0400, Ian St. John wrote:
>
>DJ Delorie wrote in message <199806080052 DOT UAA23492 AT delorie DOT com>...
>>
>>> Just goes to show that even a [expletive] like you can have it half right.
>>
>>Please refrain from profanity on this newsgroup.  There are young
>>people listening, and NOBODY needs to hear this kind of comment.  If
>>you can't say something nice, please say nothing at all.
>
>Neat. You manage to still include the insult I made in response to 'stop
>spreading misinformation', while excluding my main response to the question.
>Surely all insults are equal in this regard. I can hardly expect someone who
>is old enough to be reading this newsgroup, never having heard a harsh word
>before.

Err... nobody "excluded" your response to the question. This is not a
moderated newsgroup, the post showed up just fine. If you mean the exclusion
of the rest of the post from the reply, well, isn't that obvious? Since it
wasn't relevant to what DJ had to say, he didn't include it. Save bandwidth.

>I have no problem with netiquette. As long as it is applied evenly. Your
>passing the previous message insulting me, while blocking my response seems
>to indicate an
>'insider' mentality. Different rules for one set of people versus another.
>
>Your posting of the insult only, to re-inforce the negative effect of the
>'mis-information' insult shows that your main purpose is not to eliminate
>bad language, or enforce netiquette. If you had eliminated the insult,but
>posted the reply, even with a warning, you would have shown that you had a
>valid concern. Or your warning could have been in a separate message as a
>general message targetted at all newgroup readers.
>
>Your fine hand in selective censorship seems to show that your main purpose
>is to support 'insiders' that you have come to develop relations with. I
>suppose it is a risk for any 'moderated' group.

This *is* *not* a moderated group. Did something make you think it was?
Perhaps something is wrong with your news feed. Some posts are automatically
filtered out of the *mailing list* at DJ's discretion (primarily to avoid
spam), but not the newsgroup, and that didn't even happen here.

>I suppose this isn't nice, so I shouldn't say anything. But it does need to
>be said. Please feel free to discuss what a nasty person I am. I have no
>need to contribute my time to this discussion. I am unsubscribing to this
>group. Bye.

Have a nice day.

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com