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From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 01:41:01 GMT
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lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com writes:
>Ron Echeverri (rone@bofh.noc.best.net) wrote:
>
>: Now, forgive me, as i was not at USENIX, but, from what i've
>
>You've been flaming my ass off in a public forum about me not doing
>good work and you didn't take the time to read the paper or listen to
>the talk. You, sir, are a poor excuse for a scientist. Shame on you
>for daring to stand up and pass judgement on work you haven't even seen.
>If I were you, I'd crawl under a rock and stay there. Or you could say
>"whoops, sorry, I guess I should have checked, please accept my apologies"
>and I'll think you are a really great guy :-)
>
>In all seriousness, this sort of shoddy behaviour is why serious
>researchers don't bother to interact with Usenix. You might think
>about that.
>
Er, Larry? "You might think" about switching from the shotgun to the
rifle. Ron is definitely not the one who's been "flaming [your] ass
off". He made it a point to say he hadn't seen your talk or your paper,
and was going by the discussion here on the newsgroup. That's remarkably
different from the Usenet norm, and different from a large segment of
this thread.
May I suggest that you slow down a bit, and limit the snarling to the
folks who actually have been flaming you?
-Greg
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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