You just can't resist responding, can you?

On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 01:37:40 GMT, (Henry Blackmoore) wrote:

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On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:36:22 GMT, (Henry Blackmoore) wrote:

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On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 21:37:29 GMT, (Henry Blackmoore) wrote:

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This newsgroup is akin to a pub where most everyone shares a common
interest.

It's nothing at all like a pub. In a pub--or in any face to face
gathering--there are certain built-in constraints to behavior. Those
constraints tend to be closely tied to a) shame; and b) one's instinct for
self-preservation. Here on rec.boats, a very small handful of people
behave
in
ways I presume they never would in real life, simply because they'd risk
personal embarrassment, shame and likely personal injury.

You have a point there. But you are preaching to the wrong person. I
didn't
come to this newsgroup to get into it with folks.

And yet, strangely, out of all the posts you've made to rec.boats under your
current 'nym, almost none of them have anything to do with boating. Maybe
you
were a prolific and valued boater posting under some other handle?

Strangely I don't use different names. I use my real name. I just don't give
out my email address to just anyone or publicly. And if you insist on playing

Encyclopedia Brown or Joe Hardy and want to do a bit of sleuthing then read up

on just what 'X-no-archive:yes' is all about. The majority of my previous
posting were never archived Sherlock.

And I acknowledged that possibility.

Sure, but I don't always read the whole post and then come back and write
comments. I just take paragraphs that interest me from the top down as
they come. Sometimes new developments farther down warrant revisions,
sometimes not or I don't feel like it. In any case, get over it.


But I be god-damned if I
have to remain silent while sob's throw insults my way. Just like in a real
pub I can fight back if I so choose.


It takes no courage whatsoever to post insults from behind the comparative
anonymity of a Usenet handle--and in many instances here I see pure