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From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
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Subject: Re: Exercising Caution When Making Attributions (was Re: ... Boycott)
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Date: 3 Sep 1992 18:17:09 GMT
References: <1992Sep1.180222.20077@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1992Sep2.171951.22044@gateway.novell.com> <1992Sep3.141452.6937@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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In article <1992Sep3.141452.6937@news.acns.nwu.edu> learn@speedy.acns.nwu.edu (William J. Vajk) writes:
>But it seems you have done even worse, you have left the impression that
>I am pro-boycott, indeed there is lots of reason to understand, from your
>article, that I initiated this entire thread.
I, too, had that impression. Perhaps it's because you came across that way
when you added news.groups to the discussion, and that was the first I'd seen
of the subject.
>Apparently you'd have done much better had you read the original articles in
>the thread. At least you'd have understood what was being said without
>misattributing ideas. You could never have replied as you have had you read
>my article.
The least you could have done when importing this thread to news.groups was to
*state* that you didn't agree with it. I _can't_ read the original articles;
they've long since expired off my server.
>I expect a public retraction, Terry.
Bwahahahahaha. You're as likely to get it as alice!jj is to get the ones he
keeps demanding...i.e., not at all.
--
Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
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