Re: filmscanners: OT - Dicky returns to form..

["Tom Scales" <tscales@attglobal.net>]

To the moderatorL

I'm kind of new here, and look forward to learning a lot.

I sincerely hope this is the last post by this guy, immediately before you
ban him.

Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dicky" <corbettr@dircon.co.uk>
To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: OT - Dicky returns to form..


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark T." <markthom@camtech.net.au>
> To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 1:58 PM
> Subject: Re: filmscanners: OT - Dicky returns to form..
>
>
> > So Dicky, let me get this quite straight.  It's OK for you to post a
> > completely worthless comment about Unix, because you're just testing the
> > moderator......
> >
> > But if someone else goes off-topic they get a public insult and a
request
> > to Tony.  In my not-so-humble, but non-insulting (!) opinion, copyright
> > issues are *much* more likely to be of interest to at least some of us,
> > than, eg, your one-line throwaway Unix comment.
>
> Your views on on intrest content are quite irrelevent Mr Bunkum because
> copyright is not related to scanning film into a PC.
> >
> > 'Mr Moderator', for my 2c worth, I would express the EXACT opposite
view.
> > I do NOT mind occasional off-topic diversions, AS LONG AS they don't run
> > off out of control.  Three to five OT messages is a sensible limit I
think
> > - if others disagree, I'll happily retreat to my rock :)
> >
> > And I am now kill-filtering Dicky.  I've had enough.  First swearing,
> > racism and insults, now just insults..  That's not what I am here to
see.
>
> A head in the sand approach is not untypical for an American, all you have
> to do is listen to George Wobbly Bush on global warming.
>
> The word Turkey should hold a certain significence to those of a North
> American persuasion, and this might just be the moment to restate that
> classification.
>
> Actually, and entirely off-topic, I might just suggest that the moderator
> chuck off this list every member of the USA'ish persuasion until such time
> as they learn the true meaning of the term "International Agreement".
>
> Fuck the USA and all in her, that's what I say.
>
> Richard Corbett - man of principle, which is considerably more that you
can
> say about the citizens of the USA who put personal affluence before the
> control of their own effluence, which in turn, and by direct inference
means
> their own industrial shit, of which there is at least a 25% contribution
> towards the total effect of global warming.
>