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- From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
- Subject: Re: Errors are legit!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.161326.16248@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
- References: <1993Jan27.100113.11618@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:13:26 GMT
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- The problems with my site I mentioned are for real. I have trouble
- sometimes no matter what group I'm in. I'm not making up glitches to cover
- up flaming someone.
-
- I never meant to post that article.
-
- The terminal I was one DID lock up, and when I said I slipped and hit 'send',
- I didn't realize I had sent it until I saw it on the net that evening.
-
- I left the lab thinking I had junked it. And now the system has lock up
- twice while I was making an attempt to find and cancel the article.
-
- I've posted outrageous things on the net, but I swear I would never have
- deliberately posted something like that. The worst I've posted lately have
- been jokes about Clinton.
-
- From the moment I started posting the article, I fully intended on junking
- it when I was done.
-
- This is not an 'I was only kidding' after the fact message. I thought by
- expaining what happened it would be better than to simply ignore it.
-
- Let me clarify something from the beggining of the post: I logged off
- Monday morning honestly thinking I had hit abort.
-
- Think about it:who would post something like that with their name all over
- it?
-
- I do not deny that I edited that message. But I am saying it here and now
- that it was a mistake that it ever got out.
-
- I admit, it was a stupid mistake. If I knew this would happen I would
-
- I'm angry with myself that I did something like this without even trying.
- That something as stupid on my part as a slipped keystroke could cause all
- this trouble.
- ,
- When I saw the original, my emotions got out of hand, so to vent my fustrations
- I decided to edit the message into an ultra-negative anti-abortion message,
- but like I said, at the same time planned on junking it when finished.
- In fact, I've done this a couple of times before, typed a flame message
- only to junk it upon cooling off, never planning to send it in the
- first place.
-
- Again I say, this is not a case of 'covering one's ass', so to speak, after
- getting into trouble. In a nutshell, this is my sincere apology to
- pro-life and pro-choice persons alike. I feel pretty rotten that a
- stupid mis-typed keystroke has caused so much damage.
-
- Put simply, I f--ed up, and I freely admit it. I'm trying to apologize,
- and I hope this is taken seriously.
-
- Like I said, I've done some outrageous things on the net, but I swear
- absolutely that this is the honest truth, totally on the level.
-
-
- I reget what I did, I am truly sorry.
-
- To all reading this, please accept my apology. I wished there was more that
- I could do.
-
- I feel like I've started the net version of a nuclear war because of human
- error.
- I am sorry. If I could go back to Monday morning I would stop myself from
- ever checking talk.abo
- This is for real. I would never lie about my personal feelings.
-
- Simon
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-