From: voxwoman@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 13:58:17 -0500, "TheWitch"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"PhantomSteve" wrote in message   
   >news:Xns949EAD8B36629phantomstevehm@130.133.1.4...   
   >> [follow-ups set to RASTB only]   
   >>   
   >> "TheWitch" entertained (or was it annoyed?) us in this chronicle:   
   >>   
   >> > "Stephen C. Smith" wrote in message   
   >>   
   >> [snip of a most excellent point-by-point rebuttal of Stephen's post]   
   >>   
   >> > TheWitch   
   >>   
   >> I thought that was a great bit of work - not only did it calmly and   
   >> rationally reply to everything he said, it also made me smile :D   
   >   
   >Yay! I always hope to entertain (if only myself) as well as inform.   
   >   
   >> I've already made my reply about the only bit I was in a position to do   
   >> so ('the Usenet being public' argument).   
   >>   
   >> You know him from the moderated group, to which I have only recently   
   >> returned - I don't!   
   >   
   >Actually, I haven't been on the moderated group for several years and only   
   >this morning resubbed. Many reasons for this not the least of which was a   
   >problem getting my posts through (technical glitches and a distinct amount   
   >of laziness on my part in terms of fixing the glitches).   
   >   
   >I saw his complaint when it was crossposted to alt.fan.tom-servo and I was   
   >intrigued enough to go read the thread he was talking about to see if any of   
   >what he'd posted was actually true. When I surmised that most of it wasn't,   
   >I felt compelled to respond. :)   
      
   Sheesh. Cross-posted? Well, I hope that whatever has crawled up this   
   person's butt goes away really soon.   
      
   I guess we needed some diversion after the abortion argument from last   
   month.   
      
   Welcome back to the mod group, Witch, BTW. We're all waiting on   
   tenterhooks for the official announcemnt for a new B5 project, and   
   apparently getting rather testy during the wait.   
      
   -Wendy of NJ (one of the heinous "speakers for JMS" apparently)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   
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