Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site down.FUN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!research!princeton!down!honey From: honey@down.FUN (code 101) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: von rospach's ad hominem attack Message-ID: <444@down.FUN> Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 10:42:00 EST Article-I.D.: down.444 Posted: Tue Feb 12 10:42:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 03:49:16 EST References: <2346@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Princeton University, EECS Lines: 29 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