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- From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: yes or no? (bot deopping)
- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:03:59 GMT
- Organization: Australian National University
- Lines: 28
- Message-ID: <avalon.724961039@coombs>
- References: <85220@ut-emx.uucp> <avalon.724249567@coombs> <mrgreen.724296161@munagin> <1gm39aINN9ee@life.ai.mit.edu> <avalon.724659914@coombs> <9212181947.AA04421@hrt216.brooks.af.mil>
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- Sten M. Drescher <smd@hrt216.brooks.af.mil> writes:
-
- > I read it again. It says SpUr killed Page, Gwydion killed
- >SpUr, SpUr squitted Page.
-
- Well I guess it depends on how it is read and what you want it to say
- when you read it. Some extra puncuation probably wouldn't have gone
- astray.
-
- > Darren> Page killed Spur (stupid reason); Gwydion killed Page for
- > Darren> killing Spur (another stpuid reason); Spur squits the server
- > Darren> Page is on (the most stupid reason of the three).
-
- > NOW you're not saying that Gwydion killed Page. It looks like
- >YOU confused yourself with the 'was killed by' construction.
-
- Maybe, but Gwydion did kill page. Seems only a few had any trouble
- working out what was meant, maybe the rest dont care or saw it for
- themselves or even worked it out...everyone knows Gwydion would never
- have killed Spur...
-
- Avalon
-
- Say no to vanity ops and vanity servers.
-
- p.s. If you dont mind me asking Sten, why did you decide to jump in on
- this ? They actually let you use IRC from *.mil or something else ?
- Just curious...lucky I'm not a cat ;)
-