From James Donald Jan 26, 95 07:14:19 pm +0800 [...] A: This is not the proper place for such arguments.
Right, so why do you persist in sending them here ?
B: The statement is so flagrantly silly that the proper response is ridicule, not an answer.
Right, so why did you answer (and to the list, no less) ? [...]
[Childish insults, abuse, and flame bait deleted]
If that were true, this thread would be long dead. [...]
Note that although this flame has nothing to do with cypherpunks
Right, so why are you sending it to the cypherpunks list ?
From jamesd@com.informix.com Jan 26, 95 08:05:46 pm +0800 To summarize this thread, and I hope end it.
This was (briefly) promising.
From jamesd@com.informix.com Jan 26, 95 09:00:03 pm +0800 I am writing this under sun's unix imitation of Microsoft's [...]
If you hoped to end the thread, why continue it like this less than an hour later ?
From jamesd@com.informix.com Jan 26, 95 09:05:10 pm +0800 And did I mention that "make" used to treat a tab as semanticly [...] Oh yes, I did mention that. Well I guess I will mention it again.
Why ? What about ending the thread ?
From jamesd@com.informix.com Jan 26, 95 09:12:31 pm +0800 And did I mention that in DOS you can type rename *.txt *.asc [...]
3 more messages in 13 minutes, and you said you hoped this thread would end ?
From jamesd@com.informix.com Jan 26, 95 09:38:35 pm +0800 And did I mention that in DOS you can type: dir filename /s [...] You are spared. I will not mention "curses".
Why not spare us entirely by not sending all this mail which "has nothing to do with cypherpunks" as you said ? "Yes, James, you're absolutely right. I prostrate myself before your magnificence." Will you be quiet about this now ? What do we need to do to make you hush up ? -L. Futplex McCarthy