From: J. Michael Diehl <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 23:02:37 PDT
To: rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Subject: Re: a desperate plea
In-Reply-To: <9310270312.AA08185@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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Well, lets see how many Personal Attacks we can find in this post...

According to rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu:
> 
> Lefty, go stuff yourself. 
> You have all the credibility of Blackwell.
> The only time you ever post a message is to ad hominem someone else. 
> You've been doing this for 2+ years on the Extropians list
> -- lurking 99% of the time and only posting when you have a snide comment.  

Well, that makes 5 out of 5 so far.  Lets see if we can find more!

(just look  at your last message against wondered)

Wow!  We are 5 for 6.  Not bad..... *NOT*

> If you can't recognize the difference between a silly comment and a real
> murder threat, it's time for you to have a medical check up. 

> You nicely illustrate my point anyway. 

Well, that's two more!

> I would never make a murder threat face-to-face
> particulary because I have no intention of physically damaging anyone. 

And of course I won't even touch this one!

> It is this fact alone which Detweiler, and you need to realize.
>   Threats made over the net are vapor.

And were these even valid comments?  You be the judge.
> 
> Buddha

Ya, right.

Final score: 7 out of the 11 sentences in this post were personal attacks.
This means that 63.6% everything you had to say wrt the orignal post was the
same kind of personal attacks you were complaining about..



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