Posted by dorayme on 10/19/05 05:58

> From: Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com>
>
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:34:39 +1000, dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au>
> wrote:
>
>> Would it be so bad to be a bit nicer, a bit less savage, a bit
>> polite, a bit graceful, a bit less sarcastic...
>
> I think you misunderstand _why_ people read alt groups.
>

How will I find out the true reason Andy? What do you have
hidden in your head that is not in mine?

Actually, I was thinking about this last night and came up with
a whole lot of reasons. I also thought, Gee, some people seem to
think there is just one reason. Honestly, I don't think that the
folk who tend to make pronouncements about the essence of
alt.html really know at all. They imply that they sort of know
but rarely come up with the goods. They are real good at saying
what it is /not/ ("It is not a helpdesk" blah blah blah). Now
what does this remind us of eh? (Hint: GOD)

I did read somewhere a good set of reasons to be on alt.html (by
a very nice person, I won't embarrass by naming him or her!).
You might be nice but I would bet my Martian return spacecraft
that you would no more have a deep understanding of alt.html
than folk claim to have of God...

dorayme

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