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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.sys.sgi.misc
Subject: Re: no such thing as a "general user community"
Date: 3 Apr 1997 11:29:37 -0800
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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Message-ID: <5i10f1$ra6$1@bofh.noc.best.net>
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In article <5i0u1l$8nk@fido.asd.sgi.com>,
Larry McVoy <lm@slovax.engr.sgi.com> wrote:
>You've been flaming my ass off
I beg your pardon, but i'd have to ask you to find an instance of me
flaming you.
>You, sir, are a poor excuse for a scientist.
Ah, but i never claimed to be one! I'm just a bystander.
>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 :-)
Whoops, sorry, i guess i should have checked! Please accept my apologies.
>In all seriousness, this sort of shoddy behaviour is why serious
>researchers don't bother to interact with Usenix. You might think
>about that.
In all seriousness, i find it reprehensible that after this thread and
many others, only now do i finally see you give a straight answer.
When other people asked you similar questions, you dodged and weaved
and stuck to "The numbers don't lie" in order to claim you were right,
which, of course, you were, but yet failed to explain how and why. So
you ended up looking like the bad guy, which, of course, you are. ;)
rone
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