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From: "Osiris, Lord of the West" <ausar@isis.kemet.net>
Subject: Re: "Osiris et al": Children crossposting on sci newsgroups
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Ian Cooper wrote:
> 
> This one is addressed to "Osiris" et al., in the vain hope that you might have
> enough grey matter to comprehend and cease your crossposting.

If it is a vain hope, why are you writing this?  If you are trying to
convince me, why begin by insulting my intelligence?

> Your posts are not amusing and are indicative of a sad lack of mental and
> emotional maturity. Tell me - would you stand up in a crowded shopping mall
> and shout laughable theories at the top of your voice? 

Of course.  I make my living shouting theories at the top of my voice.
Sometimes laughable, sometimes not. Where I come from, my occasional
lack of maturity is considered endearing and sometimes even lovable.

> So then why do it in a public newsgroup? The people who read and
> post to this newsgroup are among those who made the net what it
> is today, and I'm sure many are quite capable of doing the same
> type of cheap trick with respect to obscuring their identities.

Had I only known that IAN COOPER, net.legend, The One Who Made The
Net What It Is Today, was displeased with my posts, I would have
asked Seth to nail me back in that box because I'd had enough.

> The fact that you obscure your real identities means that you 
> are quite aware of the idiotic content of your postings. I suppose 
> social responsibility is a word not in your collective lexicon, or 
> have you not learnt any such social skills due to a deprived
> childhood spent behind a computer screen? 

I'll have you know you are talking to the Lord of the West, and 
the father of the Lord of the Two Lands.  I was teaching my people
about irrigation agriculture and the making of beer long before
your ancestors came out of the trees.  So don't prattle to me about
social skills when you are trying (and failing) to cop a 'tude with
Osiris, Lord of the West.

> By all means continue posting, but stop this asinine cross-posting 
> to newsgroups where real work is done - alt.teens and alt.flame is 
> a pretty good place, if you require guidance on appropriate 
> newsgroups to use.

Kind of you to allow me to continue posting.  I already post to the
newsgroups in question, but thank you for your unsolicited advice.

> Now that I've had my say, you're in my kill file!

And happy (proud is more like it) to be there too.

Cruisin' up and down the Celestial Nile on my powerboat, the "Isis",
Osiris, Lord of the West"
