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- Subject: Re: compromise
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- From: garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin)
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:58:23 GMT
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- In article <nyikos.722267650@milo.math.scarolina.edu> nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- #In <BxowEK.Kpp.2@cs.cmu.edu> garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
- #
- ##That was, well, amazing. In a burst of selective editing, Petey
- ##Honey deleted a reference line and spent hundreds of lines
- ##replying to someone else as if he were me.
- #
- #It could be you are right about everything except the "selective" part.
- #It was a 500+ line post of yours I was following up to, and I may well
- #have deleted a reference line somewhere in the middle of the post.
- #But if so, it was because I overlooked it, not because I selectively
- #deleted it.
-
- That's right, Nyikos, you just accidentally deleted three lines
- of text that indicated the included article and no lines immediately
- above or below them.
-
- Do you really find it that hard to say "I deleted the reference lines"?
- You've seen the proof that you did. Hell, you've posted the proof
- that you did. I guess you really are incapable of admitting
- your error.
-
- #Note to all readers: In an earlier follow-up to this same short post
- #of Susan's, I carelessly assumed "reference line" referred to an
- #attribution line preceding the text of the article. My mistake there
- #was just the opposite: I left in an extra attribution line, and I thought
- #that was what was confusing Susan, just as Adrienne was "confused" (or
- #at least may have thought some newbies might be confused) when I did
- #the same thing in following up to a post of hers.
-
- No, no one was confused by your selective editing. We all
- recognized it for what it was. Why are you lying about
- Adrienne?
-
- #Anyway, my apologies to Susan and whoever else [including myself :-) ]
- #who was confused by the missing reference line. I honestly thought
- #I was talking about words due to Susan.
-
- You're apologizing to yourself, Nyikos, since you were the only one
- who was confused by your deletion. I note that you still are
- not capable of apologizing for your error.
-
- It's refreshing, though, that you are willing to admit that you
- did not read what I wrote in the article. I stated quite clearly
- that I was including someone else's article. You quoted
- my statement to that effect in your reply.
-
- #BTW I am curious to know whether Susan endorses the words I mistakenly
- #attributed to her. They sounded quite in character with the other
- #things she has written.
-
- That's nice - you can stay curious. I've already been through
- this discussion with DODie. I'm not at all interested in repeating
- it for your benifit. Perhaps you could pay someone to do it for
- you.
-
- ##I guess he'll be accusing me of forgery now.
- #
- #No, Susan. Unlike Chaney, I am very careful about how I word my
- #accusations. I guess I overestimated the ability of people to
- #draw fine distinctions, though, and I guess some were confused
- #by *me* into thinking I had accused Adrienne of forgery. To such
- #networkers, as distinct from those who were confused by *Adrienne*,
- #I apologize for the confusion.
-
- I think that you look quite foolish talking about other
- peoples' ability to draw fine distinctions when you have
- just admitted that you either don't read or can't understand
- the posts to which you reply. Everyone in t.a. saw your
- false accusation of Adrienne, and everyone here knows that
- you're still refusing to apologize for it. Lying about
- it now won't help.
-
- #Peter Nyikos (Menu for today: crow and humble pie)
-
- But only in t.a., right, Nyikos? You wouldn't want to apologize
- in all the groups in which you made your original statements,
- now, would you?
-
- Susan
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