On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:43:20 -0500, Harry Krause wrote:

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So, Joe, are you "this" Joe Parsons:


Subject: 11) Who is Joe Parsons, anyway??
From: Chris LIEthiser nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Let me see if I have this straight: you search the Usenet archives on Google and
find something an individual who cowers behind myriad sockpuppets and 'nyms
wrote about me.

Aha...so he was writing about you...good guess on my part.

Not a particularly good guess at all. It's not as though I've ever been exactly
undercover on Usenet over the last twenty or so years.

Didn't take much of a search, and I didn't have to go to dejanews...I
just googled "Joe Parsons" and the third or fourth entry sounded just
like youj.




Evidently, you are content to accept that screed of personal attacks from that
anonymous person as being somehow factual.

As opposed to your personal attacks on me?

You mean, my scurrilous, unconscionable opinion that I expressed *once*
recently, where I observed that you are often "flagrantly rude" in rec.boats?
If you call that sort of observation a "personal attack," Mr. Krause, well,
maybe Usenet is just too harsh an environment for you.

Apart from the fact that my observation of your behavior here is accurate, if a
skosh gentle, I do find it interesting that you react to that observation in
that way. It's pretty much par for the course, though; I have never seen you
pursue a discussion with anyone here without injecting your own brand of vitriol
and personal attacks.

I do have to admit, though, that resorting to personal attacks as you habitually
do is one way to avoid participating in an actual discussion.

Anyone reading your mean-spirited response is likely to see it for what it is:
the impotent mumbling of a deeply unhappy and angry man who, lacking an
argument, lashes out at anyone within reach--but bloodies and soils himself in
the process.

Joe, for the most part I ignore you, because, frankly, you are as dull
as dust. But if you are going to toss an insult my way, chances are I
may see it and toss one back your way.

I'm sure you'll understand when I tell you your approval is unsought and is of
no value to me.

If you aren't man enough to catch, then you ought not to pitch.

Ah. I think I get it now. You seem to have a problem with anyone's expressing
an opinion that you happen not to like. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

I think, for all your posturing here, you really are thin-skinned.

Joe Parsons