Re: [9fans] Publish and be damned.

[Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 03:43:25PM +0200, Boyd Roberts wrote:
>
> From: "Lucio De Re" <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
> > Make peace with the world instead of doing things to spite mankind,
>
> 1. don't lecture me.
>
You're right, I should not lecture you.  But you're @#$%&*
irresistible.  I'm sure I'm not the only one tempted, I just yield
more easily, must be the ex-catholic in me.

> 2. you have no idea of my situation.  make peace?  when you're
>    under attack?  real life stuff, not this mailing list nonsense.
>
Boyd, come stay here in Joburg for a little while, you can sleep at
the end of a V32 link to "the Internet", I'll supply coffee and
ammunition (and a loading press).

And when you've deleted the criminal element, we can go and expose
ourselves to real "nature" in nearby nature reserves (real lions
eating live people, elephants stomping them, etc).

> 5. i'm still waiting (3 days to get a $7 component from the uk to paris
>    when it took 5 days to get my Public Enemy [a us rap band] baseball
>    cap from the us, by ordinary mail).
>
Where were you brought up?  Europe, Africa and the US have very
different perceptions of time scales, and technology seems to
emphasise these differences.  I do sympathise, but whereas I may be
luckier, many around me would not even understand the nature of your
problem.  Not much good to either of us, but it is important to them
:-)

> 6. my apologies to the list/group for this waste of time and bandwidth.
>
Mine too.

++L

PS:  I really wish I could wait for a reply, but I have already
stretched someone else's patience, got to go make amends.