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| DATE | 2003-02-10 |
| FROM | Monkey Master and Prince Regent of San Francisco
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| SUBJECT | Re: [!CrackMonkey!] Re: [hangout] Re: [fairuse] Re: E-Gov-OS conference
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[distribution snipped to ruben-run venues and crackmonkey]
begin Rubn I Safir quotation:
> Do not put Criminals on the egov-OS Panel!
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> http://news.com.com/2100-1001-983988.html?tag=fd_top
Ruben, chill out. It's a *civil* suit.
This whole cross-posted charade hasn't been about microsoft or
linux or GNU or anything at all appropriate for the channels you've
been forwarding them to. This whole argument is all about Ruben Ruben
Ruben.
I'm going to say this plainly and clearly:
You are a kook.
Don't get me wrong. I am not making any judgements about your
character or your intellect here. Nor do I mean this as a term of
endearment. I mean to say that your techniques for getting your point
across closely resemble those of the crackpot physicists, crystal
shamans, conspiracy muckrakers, psychoanalytical hypochondriacs, and
political theorists that used to grace both USENET *and* the Seattle
Public Library when I was younger.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here, and
assume that you're simply so passionate about your cause that you
neglected a few details of the medium you're using.
For starters, you had your margins set wide. I used to always
be able to tell when a crazy person had sat at the typewriters at the
downtown Seattle Public LIbrary, because the margins were always set
to the extreme. The wastebins would have sheets of paper filled to
every nook and cranny with typewritten words. The use of whitespace
was minimal at best.
I always assumed that this was because they lacked a sense of
boundary or limitation, while it is just these sorts of limits that
provide structure to communication. You've been good with the
paragraphs, but you definitely had kooky margins. That's most likely
an accident of your mailer's configuration, and you did fix it, so
we'll just move on.
Second, you've cross-posted to all of these mailing lists,
most of which are uninterested in your particular shibboleth du jour.
Most usenet kooks would send their missives to soc.culture.japan,
sci.physics, and alt.sex.stories all at once. You'd tell the kooks
"Please don't cross-post, as it's pissing everyone off.", and their
only retort would amount to "But MY message is IMPORTANT!".
Finally, you start off hollering and yelling, and you never
stop. This is the thing that makes us all think you've gone Serder
Argic on us. Most kooks would even capitalize randomly while yelling
that venus needs to be made a moon of mars or something. Chill out
and try to engage people more calmly.
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New Yorker Free Software Users Scene
Fair Use -
because it's either fair use or useless....
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