From: Rick@dot.dot   
      
   In article <4122783c$0$206$75868355@news.frii.net>,   
    Elizabot  wrote:   
      
   > Rick wrote:   
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   > > In article <412273b7$0$203$75868355@news.frii.net>,   
   > >  Elizabot  wrote:   
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   > >   
   > >>Rick wrote:   
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   > >>>OK, I haven't noticed exactly at what point you get involved, but I have   
   > >>>noticed that when you do (or Steve, Steve, Sandman, Alan, and probably   
   > >>>others), the built up history between you does tend to come out.   
   > >>>   
   > >>>At that point, that branch of the thread becomes destroyed. As it seems   
   > >>>that most people in the group are well aware of the history, wouldn't   
   > >>>moving it over here accomplish just as much as leaving it there? Both of   
   > >>>you could indulge yourselves, Google would still keep a record of   
   > >>>everything, and life would go on relatively normally for people not   
   > >>>involved....   
   > >>   
   > >>If someone makes up a lie about me in a newsgroup, I'd rather counter   
   > >>that lie in the newsgroup that the lie started in.   
   > >>   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > I see your point.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >>Most people are not going to bother coming here. In the past, Snit has   
   > >>used this newsgroup as an outlet for when he goes berserk. I'd rather   
   > >>not subject myself to being in a newsgroup alone with Snit with him   
   > >>blowing up at and abusing me.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > This might be extending the metaphor a little too much. I don't know   
   > > quite how the concept of 'alone' applies in a newsgroup. I do understand   
   > > emotional support et cetera, but it's application over a distributed   
   > > network is questionable. Besides, there is, in my opinion, plenty of   
   > > evidence of both sides being able to defend themselves/their positions   
   > > adequately (and *voluminously*)   
   >   
   > It's more fun when other people are there to point out any   
   > inconsistencies I may have missed, and I can't put out the sheer volume   
   > of posts that Snit can. I don't have the time.   
      
   More fun, possibly, but hardly sporting! ;)   
      
      
   >   
   > Regardless, there has been another Rick that occasionally posts to the   
   > other newsgroup who often argued with Edwin. Might I suggest you add the   
   > initial to your last name (provided it isn't H!) if you are going to   
   > post UI related posts there in order to distinguish yourself from him.   
      
   Yeah, I noticed that there was another Rick, crossposting from Linux   
   groups occasionally. I wonder how Edwin took me, then? Might have been   
   very confusing for him...   
      
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