Salutatio Frank!
02-Apr-98, Frank Masingill wrote to Richard Meic
          Subject: A Philosophical Question
 RM>> Are familiar with why these people are following Frank here to
 RM>> badger him about an incident that occurred quite some time ago?
 RM>> It is just that it looks to me like these people don't have a
 RM>> life and are unable to just let it go.  The regular "civil"
 RM>> people here respect Frank and each other, _I_ respect Frank.  I
 RM>> really don't care about what the smeg happened in another echo,
 RM>> and I am behind Frank all the way.  I am quite sick and tired of
 RM>> these boneheads who think their hot shit coming here to spread
 RM>> waves of discontent and malice because they do not feel up to a
 RM>> REAL intellectual challenge.
 FM> Richard, let this thanks to you stand for my thanks to others of
 FM> the regulars on PHIL who enjoy the intellectual give and take
 FM> without personal invective.  Why people substitute nastiness and
 FM> name-calling for intellectual exchange continues to puzzle me.
 FM> Thanks.
                                                                 
You are very welcome, Frank. 
I think with a lot of effort we can push them out of here, they do not seem
to want to belong here.  They are caught in the "hostile debate" mode, and
they likely got some severe intellectual punishment in the echos they
came from and are looking for the ego boost.  Think of it this way, they
are in *OUR* territory now and they have no idea what the terrain is
like.
PS:
Y'know, I can understand a few boneheands to find their way here now and
then, but ALL at once?  Really, someone must have called them in.
 Dicere...
 email address (vrmeic@nucleus.com)
Richard Meic
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