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Walter Meyer (wrm...@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de) wrote:
: vinc...@news.gate.net (Vincent Felicione) writes:

: <Satanism .sig deleted>

: >	Your signature file is totally inappropriate for %99.9 of the 
: >messages bases.  Actually %100 inappropriate but I won't preach my 
: >religious beliefs to you.  People like you are the ones who will bring 
: >censorship to the net.  Please grow up and gain some respect for others 
: >and their religious beliefs.

: How about you gaining some respect for his religious believe?   8)

     The problem is not his religious beliefs.  If he wants to believe in 
Satanism, that's his business.  There's two other problems: (1) Some 
people have to pay to download their e-mail.  His .sig is... how many 
lines long?  I lost count!  Standard netiquette recommends that .sigs 
should not be longer than four lines.  It's also really annoying when 
someone posts a five-line message with a 50-line .sig, even if you DON'T 
pay for your access.

     And (2), Walter, you're not from the U.S., so you don't have to 
worry about Senator Exon and his censor-the-Internet party.  We do.  
This kind of .sig is EXACTLY the kind of thing that would put Exon 
on the warpath (again).  I, for one, do not want to see the Internet 
censored.  Preventing pornography is fine by me, but some of the things 
Senator Exon wants... like making the Internet providers responsible for 
pornography even if they didn't know it was on their site... is just 
ridiculous.

     Oh, and (3), I've seen this guy before.  I warned him once before, a
long time ago, by e-mail about the length and content of his .sig file. 
He told me, in no uncertain terms, to "fuck off".  Just ignore him or
start forwarding his posts to his sysadmin.  Sooner or later, he'll
realize that we're ignoring him and go away, or his sysadmin will tell
him to "shape up or ship out" (I hope). 

     I'm surprised that this time he actually tried to find a relevant
issue to bitch about.  I've had to re-assess his intelligence; he may even
be smarter than my dog (my dog qualifies as the "dumbest dog in the
world", IMHO).  I disagree with some of his opinions; for example, System
Shock is one of the best games Origin has distributed in recent years,
IMHO.  Bioforge may have been too short, but at least it was trying to 
go in a new direction.  And so forth. 

     Note to whomever: System Shock was not PROGRAMMED by Origin.  It was
programmed by Looking Glass and DISTRIBUTED by Origin.  It's obvious that
you didn't do your research. 

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