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[ILUG-Social] Re: [ILUG] Lawbreaker.

[ILUG-Social] Re: [ILUG] Lawbreaker.

sdempsey sdempsey at iol.ie
Wed Jun 30 23:57:12 IST 1999


Sorry Rob , but imagine if somebody mailed
something along the lines 
"If I was really sad and a total loser I would have installed LINUX"
to this group. I'd flame them and I reckon that quite a few others would 
join in. Your post does seem a little OTT even if I knew what the
context 
was.

Take it easy,

	...shane

Rob wrote:
> 
> Twomey_Mark at emc.com wrote:
> 
> >
> >         "If I wanted to be treated like an
> >         idiot, I would've bought a Mac" to a Mac news group - the response I
> > got was,
> > well.....overwhelming.
> 
> >
> > Now what did you expect by writing a silly thing like that in a Mac Group?
> > Applause?
> > I could fire off 8 pages of single-spaced venom straight at you for that
> > statement alone, but I won't as I'm not that type of person and obviously
> > you "have been there, done that" and it did not make any difference.
> 
> just because you try and make it sound intelligent, doesn't mean you
> don't have the same reaction to it.....you're taking it too seriously - like
> I said in the last email "All In Fun" - but I guess you missed that....
> 
> hey - relax man - chill out there dude - they're only operating systems -
> not important enought to get upset about...
> 
> rob
> 
> --
-- 
##########sdempsey at iol.ie sdempsey at emhain.wit.ie########
#######...shane D  http://www.iol.ie/~sdempsey##########
An American's a person who isn't afraid to criticize the President but
is always polite to traffic cops.




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