Re: KFest '97

[jkeim@unlinfo.unl.edu (james keim)]

Dan Yertzell (DanY@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: Brian Hammack <brian.hammack@rook.wa.com> wrote in article
: <1592702460-970808054700@rook.wa.com>...
: >  JUE(| Nathan,  in all fairness, this is a little too caustic for a
: >      | reply.  Unless, you are replying to some Dan Yertzell knowing
: >      | that he has been involved with some pirating (which is not
: >      | apparent from your post) then tone it down and be civil.
: > 

: Say What?  What "piracy" have I been involved with in the past?  Be
: specific and include your evidence, please.  The accusations by children
: don't constitute proof, however.

Dan--
     Slow down and read a little more carefully.  I did not say you 
were involved in priracy and Nathan's post did not either.  I simply 
said that Nathan's response was out of line unless he was responding 
to such a situation.  I was speaking in your behalf asking people to 
be civil.  I was talking in the hypothetical.  _If_ you were involved 
with piracy the response might be appropriate.  I could not see any 
other context in which it would be appropriate.  However, your 
response,


:This newsgroup is *way* out of control.  The little clique of
:self-righteous assholes, and you know who you are, PLEASE start your own
:"moderated" group.  Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
:The rest of us will get on with our lives.

suggests that maybe there is one other context.  Nathan seems to be 
talking to you in a language you understand well.

I apologize for speaking up for you and for giving you the benefit of 
the doubt.

--James K.