[103447] in Cypherpunks
Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul H. Merrill)
Sun Sep 27 00:18:47 1998
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 23:52:45 -0700
From: "Paul H. Merrill" <paulmerrill@acm.org>
To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: "Paul H. Merrill" <paulmerrill@acm.org>
<<Heavily snipped to allow for those who don't like it otherwise.>>
>
> Whenever these people troll for flames here they get them one way or
> another. Then it seems Merrill always tries to take the moral high ground
> and show us all his bleeding heart and tell us how we should embrace the
> AOL idiots and cherish them.
1. As a matter of fact, I do try to take the moral high ground -- in
all things. Sorry, it was how I was raised and I do not intend to swith
to seeking the immoral low ground.
2. I have Never said to embrace and cherish the idiots from AOL. Just
that some of the actions I have seen are much closer to the immoral low
ground.
> I don't think Merrill ever misses a chance to defend AOL and attack anybody who
> attacks them.
I do not mean to Defend AOL except from misinformation -- BTW some of
the characteristics attributed to AOL and its software show a great deal
of clueneediness on the part of the "authors" or a need for
reaquaintance with the truth if the folk actually have a clue and
deciuded to spread "other stuff" instead. OTOH I do try to defend the
innocents be they from AOL or elsewhere from the repercussions of the
spamming scum that (among other things) started the whole sixdegres
episode.
> About a week ago somebody posted a copy or parts of most AOL
> postings which were sent here in the last months. Merrill ignores the part
> about how the posts were classified
I read his classification criteria closely, and read the results of the
classification process.
> and sends back some vague flame accusing
> the author of classing posts he disagreed with as "clueless" then he quotes
> the entire thing back to the list.
>
Then commented that he had not followed his own criteria.
> I don't know which is worse. At least the people flaming the AOL wimps are
> funny.
If funny is all you want, may I recommend rec.humor.funny and, in case
you are up on no current events but Clinton, rec.humor.funny.reruns.
And to the brilliant person seeking muff diving pics, gee send a real
address and we'll see what we can do. (At least he didn't want it for
pre-muff variety.)
PHM
