Re: a desperate plea

Ray faovrs us with
>
>J. Michael Diehl writes:
>> According to rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu:
>> >   I'm coming to kill your family tommorow with a rusty razor.
>> 
>> This is a bit tasteless, don't you think.  Come on, grow up.
>
>   That was sort of an inside joke directed at Perry. (it's the motd
>of the Extropian's mail server) However, if it sapped any of LD's bodily
>fluids, I'm happy. I'd have to be, since I'm an evil, treasonous
>Benedict Arnold of cypherpunks who should be hung by the neck or deported
>off the net.

No, in point of fact, you're a poorly adjusted infant who finds it amusing
to stand at a safe distance and clog up the net with threats which he
surely would never dare to make face-to-face.

Ray, before you recommend psychological evaluation for others, it might be
worth considering looking into some for yourself.  You might also want to
give Jacoby and Meyers a call and ask them for a quick rundown on the
prevailing assault statutes.

Please take your cowardly bravado to private email.  You're about as
impressive as a third-grader sticking out his tongue at the playground
bully from behind the safety of his mother's skirt, a situation with which
I can't help but feel you have some personal familiarity.


--
Lefty (lefty@apple.com)
C:.M:.C:., D:.O:.D:.

Lefty, resident net judge, rants:
> No, in point of fact, you're a poorly adjusted infant who finds it amusing
> to stand at a safe distance and clog up the net with threats which he
> surely would never dare to make face-to-face.

  Lefty, go stuff yourself. You have all the credibility of Blackwell.
The only time you ever post a message is to ad hominem someone else. You've
been doing this for 2+ years on the Extropians list -- lurking 99% of the
time and only posting when you have a snide comment.  (just look
at your last message against wondered)

  If you can't recognize the difference between a silly comment and a real
murder threat, it's time for you to have a medical check up. You nicely
illustrate my point anyway. I would never make a murder threat face-to-face
particulary because I have no intention of physically damaging anyone. It is
this fact alone which Detweiler, and you need to realize.

  Threats made over the net are vapor.

Buddha

-- Ray Cromwell        |    Engineering is the implementation of science;    --
-- EE/Math Student     |       politics is the implementation of faith.      --
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Well, lets see how many Personal Attacks we can find in this post...

According to rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu:
> 
> Lefty, go stuff yourself. 
> You have all the credibility of Blackwell.
> The only time you ever post a message is to ad hominem someone else. 
> You've been doing this for 2+ years on the Extropians list
> -- lurking 99% of the time and only posting when you have a snide comment.  

Well, that makes 5 out of 5 so far.  Lets see if we can find more!

(just look  at your last message against wondered)

Wow!  We are 5 for 6.  Not bad..... *NOT*

> If you can't recognize the difference between a silly comment and a real
> murder threat, it's time for you to have a medical check up. 

> You nicely illustrate my point anyway. 

Well, that's two more!

> I would never make a murder threat face-to-face
> particulary because I have no intention of physically damaging anyone. 

And of course I won't even touch this one!

> It is this fact alone which Detweiler, and you need to realize.
>   Threats made over the net are vapor.

And were these even valid comments?  You be the judge.
> 
> Buddha

Ya, right.

Final score: 7 out of the 11 sentences in this post were personal attacks.
This means that 63.6% everything you had to say wrt the orignal post was the
same kind of personal attacks you were complaining about..



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J. Michael Diehl writes:
> Final score: 7 out of the 11 sentences in this post were personal attacks.
> This means that 63.6% everything you had to say wrt the orignal post was the
> same kind of personal attacks you were complaining about..

  No, I wasn't complaining about his personal attacks per se but his long term 
behavior on this list and Extropians which is mainly "hit-and-run"
attack posts about once a month which usually generate massive flame wars.
(the last of which ended up with Tim May leaving the extropians list)

  Perhaps you don't like me, but I can atleast lay claim to have participated
in non-flamefest threads and contributed help and software when I was asked.
Many people have simply sent me private e-mail politely requesting that I stop
the Detweiler flame. All Lefty's message did was add fuel to the fire and
was just as unproductive as my original joke-threat against Lance. I
would like to end this thread and get back to rationally discussing
pseudonyms, but its not going to happen if I keep getting messages like
yours in my mailbox.


-- Ray Cromwell        |    Engineering is the implementation of science;    --
-- rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu  |       politics is the implementation of faith.      --