Re: [Fwd: Re: GETTING RID OF MOZILLA 1.6 BECAUSE OF THE COCKROACHES IN HERE.]

Brian Heinrich wrote:

> On 07.05.04 11:39 (-0600 UTC), Lorraine wrote:
> 
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject:     Re: GETTING RID OF MOZILLA 1.6 BECAUSE OF THE COCKROACHES 
>> IN HERE.
>> Date:     Mon, 03 May 2004 15:56:21 -0400
>> From:     Gus Richter <[email protected]>
>> Organization:     Another Netscape Collabra Server User
>> Newsgroups:     netscape.test.multimedia
>> References:     <[email protected]>
>>
>> Lorraine wrote:
>>
>>> *I REMOVED THE POST I JUST SENT AWHILE
>>> AGO AS IT WAS WRONG ADDY.
>>> YOU ARE CAUSING ME A LOT OF PROBLEMS
>>> AND I HAVEN'T DONE A BLASTED THING TO
>>> ANY OF THE COCKROACHES IN HERE.
>>> YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE GUTS TO SIGN OR SAY THAT YOU ARE DELETING.
>>> BUNCH OF CRAP FOR SURE.
>>> I AM GETTING RID OF MOZILLA 1.6 BECAUSE
>>> YOU ARE ALL SICK AND MAKING ME AS SICK AS YOU ARE. I JUST CAN'T TAKE 
>>> IT ANYMORE.
>>> YOU ARE REALLY A BUNCH OF HIPPOCRITES.
> 
> 
> *sigh*  Couldn't make up your minuscule mind between 'hypocrites' and 
> 'Hippocrates', I take it?
> 
>>> I HOPE YOU ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN WITH IT.
>>> YOU ALL DESERVE IT, I FEEL SORRY FOR THE DEVELOPERS WHO ARE WORKING 
>>> HARD FOR MOZILLA AND HAVE TO PUT UP WITH THE LIKES OF CRAP LIKE YOU.
>>> STICK MOZILLA 1.6 WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE.
>>> *
> 
> 
> [Snipped Gus patient and reasoned response to this lunatic's ravings. . 
> . .]
> 
>> I never email you Gus Richter. You emailed me first with the potential 
>> Netsky virus. I then emailed you.
> 
> 
> Listen, there have been times when there's been little love lost between 
> Gus and myself, but I suspect that anyone here -- other than yourself -- 
> would find it very difficult to believe that Gus is capable of doing 
> what you've suggested that he's done.  Beyond being scandalous, your 
> decision to broadcast the accusation beyond its original forum would 
> appear to be defamatory.  Libelous, even.
> 
>> *I asked you many times to remove this thread as well as any other 
>> that has my email addy on it.
>> I don't care about [email protected] as that is filtered.  I asked 
>> Gus Richter to remove the one he posted which is the one I am writing 
>> about, to no avail.  He says he doesn't know how.
> 
> 
> Umm . . . chances are he doesn't.  There are very few people who have 
> that kind of access to the server, and, AFAIK, Gus ain't one of 'em. 
> You'd prol'y have done better to ask, say, Jay -- or one of the other 
> Champs -- , nicely and politely, to do so.  In stead, you've chosen to 
> act like a psychotic bitch, which isn't likely to endear you to most of 
> the regulars here.
> 
>> I am visually impaired and I asked them to keep the thread in order, 
>> but some of them think they are in charge in NTMM and jump my messages 
>> or posts.
> 
> 
> And visual impairment gives you the right to act as tho' everyone here 
> should kiss your ass?
> 
>> I am not the only one having a problem as Jim said he does too.  I 
>> know several visually impaired people and they also have a problem. It 
>> would be nice if this could be settle once and for all and a little 
>> consideration and compassion for people with inpairments.
> 
> 
> Hello? -- are you fucking shitting me?  IT'S A MULTIMEDIA NEWSGROUP. Are 
> you daft? -- Would you ask an orator to speak more loudly because you're 
> deaf? would you ask an academic to use smaller words and simpler 
> sentences because you're a dolt?
> 
> The 'consideration and compassion for people with i[m]pairments' of 
> which you speak is a (social) entitlement, /not/ a right.  Deal with it. 
>  Many of us -- including, I should add, your much-reviled Herr Richter 
> -- are quite well aware of the need to design web pages that are not 
> exclusory, but to insist (as you seem to be doing) that this be extended 
> to a multimedia group on a private server is, well, ridiculous.
> 
>> I will remove MOZILLA suite  1.6  today.
> 
> 
> Is this a threat or a promise? -- 'Cos with friends like you, the 
> Mozilla community sure as shit doesn't need enemies.
> 
>> I will also remove Mozilla from my friends PC's as I set them up with 
>> Moz.
> 
> 
> Then apparently your friends are indeed idiots, since only an idiot 
> would allow someone to uninstall a piece of software because . . . umm . 
> . . what was the reason? -- You want to remove Mozilla because of issues 
> related to NTMM?  Uh-huh.  I see.
> 
> I'm going to try to set the f'up to this to n.p.m.mstone (which, the 
> last I looked, was an appropriate place for splenetic rantings such as 
> yours), but have little hope of posting between the two servers.
> 
> So I guess the only appropriate response here is:
> 
> *plonk"
> 
> /b.
> 
>> -Lorraine
>> *
> 
> 

And I was having such a nice day...

Lee
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