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From: honey@down.FUN (code 101)
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Subject: Re: von rospach's ad hominem attack
Message-ID: <444@down.FUN>
Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 10:42:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 12 10:42:00 1985
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Organization: Princeton University, EECS
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Keywords: mediocrity, misinformation, manipulation

i am ignoring the attacks on me by total strangers who insist on
defending perlman's mediocrity; these people are misinformed and
easily manipulated.  but von rospach's latest bleatings, in which he
expresses anxiety that he would ever sound like me, border on slander
and beg for a response.

von rospach, your worries are ill-founded.  it is your fate to sound
like a whining adolescent ("no one appreciates all my hard work in
saving the net"), a pathetic social leper ("*sigh*, the net is my
BEST friend, *grin*") or simply a half-witted lunk ("i refuse to take
myself seriously", and most flagrantly "chuqui").

i won't comment on your technical competence; i don't read
net.singles, so i'm not in a position to evaluate it.

now be honest.  you don't really care about perlman do you?  after
all you don't want to defend a 1000 line c program that runs slower
and does less than the five line shell script in kernighan and pike,
or a mammoth menu based shell that doesn't compile, or a comparison
of read and fread based on a 10 line c program (you know, the one
that ran in 0.1 sec), do you?

if you're being perfectly candid, you'll admit that you're still
miffed by the mail i sent you last week.  since you have escalated
this private matter into a public slugfest, why not enlighten "the
net" by posting that note?  and maybe perlman would like to do the
same.

	peter