Re: Slightly puzzled

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <52h7cl$918@crl4.crl.com>, Sam Ismail <dastar@crl.com> wrote:
>Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) brayed like a jack-ass the following:
>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?

   I tell the truth and the facts. If that insults and is negative on
somebody's little dreams, tough.  Being nice is a subset of the
truth. If you can't stomach the truth, that is YOUR problem, not mine.

   I will not give in to the lie that most of the software on Asimov
is in any way legitimately downloadable by anyone, or the lie that
Turley can simply ignore his past and present problems and be
immediately accepted. My posts are full of the facts, like them or
not; they're staying that way.

   Once people stick to the facts and not some Barneyesque "We're all
one happy family" shit, then we can be nice. The poison of lies is
much more deadly than the doctor trying to amputate without too much
anasthesia.

Nathan Mates

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