Re: Slightly puzzled

[dastar@crl.com (Sam Ismail)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) brayed like a jack-ass the following:
:    Possible. But, 'Sam Ismail' has almost none of the redeeming
: features of the rest of them-- some sense of huumor or style. I want a
: refund; this putz's defective.

You know, its really funny how nathan tries to turn things around on
people.  He wants everyone to believe that he's this likeable, knowledgable
helpful, friendly guy who gets along with everyone.  Well, sorry to
burst your bubble there natey-boy, but you're not.  Knowedgable?  Yes,
I'm sure you've proven that many times over.  Likeable?  Like Joey
Buttafouco, there are probably some people who still like them.  Helpful?
Probably.  Friendly?  Not really.  You do a good job pretending sometimes,
but your incessant flamage betrays your hastily crafted facade.

Before I had to speak up and respond to your rantings and hellfire, the
only time I wrote a message was in reply to someone's request for
information or to add to the reminiscence of the good old days of
apple computing.  That's all I was here for.  Basically, to relax.
Like I said in my first posting which entered me into this fray,
you seemed like a sensible, knowledgable guy.  But you have publicly
proven yourself to me, as I am sure to others as well, that you are
an ass.

Nathan, you are no good at insults.  You have no elegance.  You have
no finesse, no savvy.  Definitely no diplomacy.  You need to realize
this.  I'm sure coming from me you this sounds like an insult (well,
I guess it is), but really, you should refrain from entering into
any more arguments.  You have no ability to maintain your position.
You should just keep on being helpful with your vast knowledge of
Apple ][ stuff and keep the negativity down to a minimum.

I think I've had more than my say around here, and hopefully I've made
my position clear (from the sounds of it, some people still have no
clue).  I don't think continuing on with this waste of bandwidth is
going to help hammer my point home any further.  Whatever point I
may have been trying to make has been lost in the noise of all this
constant bickering and blathering.  So I'm just going to ignore any
more messages coming from the zealots for a while in the hope that
they get bored yelling about pointless topics with no audience to
hear them.

Can you promise the same, Nate?  Can you offer that you will simply
confine your messages to helpful comments and suggestions, which is
afterall what you, as the maintainer of the Apple ][ FAQ and homepage,
are supposed to do?  Can you pledge to refrain from being insulting
and negative?  Can you?

-- 
Sam
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