ASSumptions

Greg Montalbano Greg.Montalbano at ucop.edu
Thu May 22 11:47:34 CDT 1997


Sara Jones, missing the point completely, rants:
 
>
>
>I find this statement offensive.  "lettered"? maybe... if lettered implies
>formally educated, mainly formally educated in the use of vocabulary words.
> As for "high-class", I've never seen so much petty squabbling, idle
>threats, dumb un-related one line replies to 500 lines of quoted text, and
>non-literary or even topical comments.
>
>I don't mind the volume of the mails, but there seems to be a group of
>high-volume posters who seem to take great delight in tittering about their
>greatness in being in such ivory tower cliques. 

You should go IMMEDIATELY to the original "Obsession" thread in your mail
folder, re-read the posts there, THEN re-read Andrew's note in context.
Whatever you're foaming about, it has NOTHING to to with the content of his
post.

(Maybe it's the full moon).




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