Syndicate: Re: A "bouqu3t"

[Julie <bluedahlias@mindspring.com>]

Dear Steev:
A belated reply. Sorry, I didn't mean to dis' your perl script. I
appreciate your thoughtful response to a very unfunny situation.

I am just very tired of nn, and our extreme fixation with nn.

Best Regards,
Julie Blankenship



At 9:12 AM -0700 8/8/01, Steev Hise wrote:
>If anyone is interested, the source code for the
>cgi i posted yesterday is here:
>
>http://datamassage.com/sw/opencode/hackspeak.cgi
>
>Perhaps someone will be interested in the project Amy
>suggested: reversing the functionality for use as a mail
>filter, auto-translating NN missives.  Although as I said to
>Amy, it's much harder to run the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
>backwards. (If you do succeed at this, please send me a
>patch!)
>
>->From: Julie <bluedahlias@mindspring.com>
>->I decided I'd had enough when I filtered out NNs messages, and there was
>->almost virtually nothing else coming in. I couldn't believe that others
>->were parroting her cryptic bullshit language. Those who want to correspond
>->with NN can do it easily (off -list), I'm sure. Time to move on...
>
>are you talking about my poor little perl script?  if so,
>madam, you injure me. it was a **joke**.  perhaps you lack a
>sense of humor? i hope not, that would be sad... ;-(
>
>Anyway, i've been putting up with integer for about 6 years
>now on 5 or 6 different lists. (believe me, i have no desire
>to correspond with it off-list.) i hate it as much as you
>seem to, but i know that it will never be stopped simply by
>plain old whining.  i've seen hundreds of flamewars that
>start with 1 post from integer, and end with 50 posts from
>people complaining (and complaining stupidly)  about
>integer, mixed with about 50 posts from people defending
>integer. if people would just ignore it, or at least attack
>it with some cleverness, it would go away, but they never
>do, and it gets exactly what it wants - naive attention.
>
>->The air smells sweet this morning. Thank you, Inke, for uns*bscribing
>->integer--it's an act of courage, striking a blow for intellectual and
>->artistic freedom.
>
>What an ironic thing to say. (perhaps "blow for" is meant
>to read "blow against"?) I beleive censorship is also
>the wrong course. Even if it were ethically correct, the
>creature will just come back under a different name, now
>with more to rant about, that we are "oppressing" it, etc.
>
>sigh.
>
>best wishes,
>
>Steev Hise, Infoserf
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