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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:05:51 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Announcing Allegro 3.11
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Paul Derbyshire wrote:
> 
> > At 11:22 AM 3/1/99 +0200, you wrote:
> > >There are certain problems, Paul, that smileys cannot take care of.
> >
> > I disagree.
> 
> You are entitled to disagree, but please keep that disagreement to
> yourself, and don't act as if everybody else MUST agree with you, or
> suffer your ``jokes''.  If a joke offends somebody, then the prudent
> thing to do is to not repeat those jokes anymore, even if you cannot
> possibly understand why is it offending.  (And in this case, you should
> have understood, IMHO, and well before posting it.)
> 
> > >...ethnic origin...
> >
> > Fallacy: you are introducing something irrelevant into the discussion
> 
> It is not irrelevant.  You were mocking a name of foreign origin.  It's
> always like that with names: the native names are never funny, only the
> foreign ones are.

Concur.

Paul, you're alone here.  Just drop it.  Your posts are good when
they're on-topic, but you're well on your way to earning a place in
hundreds of killfiles with this other garbage.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com

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