It's been my observation that a person's brains get evenly divided up
among their sockpuppets.
From: Alan Connor
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Started as Redhat user, mostly because I had a Redhat 5.1 CD from a
magazine, and I liked Redhat 5.1 and 5.2. Didn't like what they did to
Redhat 6.1 and 6.2, and I only used Redhat 7.1 for downloading
Slackware 8.0 and burning the CD. Been a Slackware user ever since.
From: Thomas Overgaard
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Bullshit is, in essence, an argument in support of a position made
without regard for the truth.  True statements may appear in bullshit,
but utility is the criterion for use of a statement, not truth.
Fluffy really enjoys his own bullshit.  Too bad he's not really any
good at it. 
From: Old Man
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The table syntax is wrong!!! It would have been wrong ten years ago,
you moronic putz.
From: No_One
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I just realized you're that little twit with all the pgp trash deleted
messages.  God, I'm an idiot!!
From: No_One
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Nurse! ...Al has escaped his padded cell again!!
From: notbob
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Assuming there is a /dev directory with a null device in it.
Which makes me ask the question. If making something from nothing is
called creation what do you call making /dev/null because that is
making nothing from something?
From: richard
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Yes, A-B, we're all out to get you.  aols is just a conspiracy to
harrass and discredit you and your "very expensive wife" (who, but a
complete nut job, would repeatedly use such a bizarre phrase?).  We
are a pack of wild dogs wearing white sheets goose-stepping through
your fantasy world with one purpose in mind.  GET AL!  And now,
instead of saving the world from the forces of aols darkness and
making aols a better place for all, A-B will now become that which he
would save us from, the biggest barking dog in the pack.  Jinkies!
From: notbob
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A lot of people know nothing about the power of text based apps. Some
people ask me sometimes.. "Why do you read your e-mails on a DOS
program?" ;)
From: Martin Gagnon
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blackbox is dead the same way GP and ABC declare Slackware is dead.
From: Keith Keller
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* What do we want?
- MARKET SHARE!
* When do we want it?
- NOW!
* What do we want?
- MARKET SHARE!
* When do we want it?
- NOW!
* What do we want?
- MARKET SHARE!
* When do we want it?
- NOW!
From: Joost Kremers
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If you need to use OE, try to remember to post below the text you are
replying to. Many people that use "real" newreaders find this
irritating.
From: Franklin
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Well, let's find out, A-B.  Give us your rabbi's email and I will be
glad to forward all your Himmler-esque dog ravings of the last several
months.  Howzabout your wife?  I'm sure she'd love to hear how you
refer to her.  Not "my darling" or my loving wife or my dear wife,
but "my very expensive wife".  Are you bragging or complaining?  I'd
love to hear her take on that label.  I wonder what your shrink would
think of all this?  Or some of your customers.  Are your customers
aware you're an obsessed ranting raving lunatic on a little known
corner of the internet?  I wonder if your authors know you moonlight
as a certified nut case on usenet and if perhaps you might not be
ranting about them behind their back.
From: notbob
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Here's an idea al, you're an author, an editor, a publisher....publish
us a book about Linux.
However, there are two probelms you need to resolve:
1. You don't know.
2. You don't know you don't know.
From: No_One
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He [ABC] changed part of the e-mail address with a quick /-/dash/.  I
doubt this was to avoid spammers. Afterall, he already had the
"takeout" provision to fool them.  Nope, I see no reason to do this
other than to escape kill files.  Can he do it? Certainly. He has a
right to make a fool of himself if he so chooses; no one can stop him.
But should he have done it? I think the answer there is a definitive
"no".
From: +Alan Hicks+
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See A-B, you can't deny your mouth is moving while your talking.  You
may believe it to be true, but everyone hearing you is thinking, "We
need to up the security budget at the funny farm".
From: notbob
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Typical...this is typical of your work ethic, incomplete, half done
and usless.
From: No_One
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What you see as hate is disdain for mediocrity. What you see as
ignorance is a failure on my part to understand how mediocity can
exist in this enlightened world.  What you see as intolerance is, in
fact, intolerance.
From: No_One
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To paraphrase an old joke, you guys don't come here for the Slackware,
do you?
From: Chick Tower
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I've never preached hate or violence or intolerance toward you, A-B.
I've just expressed my opinion you are a megalomaniacal psychotic liar
that lives in a delusional fantasy world of denial and imagined
persecution.  I bet you think this thread is about you, don't you?...
don't you?... don't you?....
From: notbob
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No, he's right. You're a cunt.
From: Chu Mai Fat
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That's like saying that most "real hackers" don't bother to use
newsreading software to post messages to a newsgroup, because they can
telnet to port 119 of the news server.  Gpm is a tool, and most "real
hackers" understand its value as a tool at least as well as anyone
else does.  Some may choose not to use it, but I doubt that any "real
hackers" simply "don't bother" to.
From: Sylvain Robitaille
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You are a social and intellectual cripple.  To compound that sin, you
are, by your own admission, mediocre.
From: No_One
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If you can't dispute the facts, make 'em think you're crazy.  Not an
approach I'd use, but it seems to work well for you.
From: No_One
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Could you please show us a little respect and bury the "cordially, as
always," stuff in your X-Headers?  Thank you for your consideration.
From: Chris Green
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It would be most helpful if you told us what you have researched so
far, such as a list of web links, and what caused you to reach a dead
end. Then we will not replicate your efforts and perhaps can focus on
getting you over whatever the bump was that caused you to call the
issue too complicated. Realizing you have hardly a clue is the first
step. Realizing where in the documentation you came to this conclusion
is the really helpful one though. 
From: Melissa Danforth
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You're not even in Little League.  What comes before LL?  Brownies?
From: Dan C
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The Council of Six (the other five wish to remain anonymous)
meet quarterly at a secret location in the hills of Tennessee.  After
an evening of good beer and feeding kittens to the goat, we get down
to the serious business of "dealing with Al."  Once the strategy is
decided upon, we advise Dan, ken, notbob, and the others how to
proceed.
From: Old Man
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Interesting, I say the sky is blue and your response is "no, I take my
lunch to work."
If you can't dispute the facts, make 'em think you're crazy.  Not an
approach I'd use, but it seems to work well for you.
You win fluffy[ANC].  You're crazy.
From: notbob
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Now let me get this straight...  Does this mean that if someone bashed
in Al's face with a crowbar just because they thought he was stupid,
they would get a lighter sentence (if caught) than they would if they
called him a fat bag of shit homosexual coward while beating him?
From: Dan C
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Also, if someone bashed in Al's face with a crowbar just because they
thought he was stupid, but at the same time yelled loudly and
distinctly, "How dare you call me a fat bag of shit homosexual coward
while attacking me." it would be called self defense, in the
suppression of a hate crime.
From: imotgm
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Actually, Al, you are quite correct here.  Being one of the more
"unix-like" linix distros, Slackware users believe in the philosophy
that "programs should do one thing and do it well".  If all it takes
is a cartoon character to summarize your pathetic existance than I
need not go any further.
From: Franklin
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Geekiest person is the first to create a sliderule that runs bash.
From: richard
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After dealing with women who couldn't be consistant about
the color of the sky or how many pills they had taken I decided that
this time I had to get one with a rule book.  This way in case I don't
understand the output from an action I can RTFM and get an idea of
what went wrong.  I needed a woman as dependable as Slackware.
From: Faux_Pseudo In: Slackware-OT
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People who prefer doing it manually are not necessarily a bunch of
wankers.
From: Niki Kovacs
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Thanks, everyone!  Andrea and I appreciate all the kind posts and
emails.  :-)
All the best,
From: Patrick J. Volkerding
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What you need is good old fashioned manuals, the ones back in the days
before they became marketing tools. The ones that tell you how the
program works and how to get your job done.
From: richard
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Dan, what is the cause of your low self-esteem,
that results in your being everyone's bitch?
From: Paragon
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I don't like to follow up to my own post, however, you'll notice that
my last post wasn't a post at all.  It was just a copy of someone's
prior post.
With that said, I think I've lost all credibility to criticize anyone
for using google groups to post....I can't seem to handle slrn.  Hmmm,
maybe google groups is easier.
From: No_One
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I sneezed and ruptured some grey cells.
From: No_One
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Must .. not .. validate .. Al!  Head ... exploding!
From: Old Man
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As for why I did not face your "reasoned argument"... well experience
has shown that there is no such beast when it comes to you.
From: Melissa Danforth
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Had I attempted a reasonable discourse, experience has shown that you
would have either ignored the response or started using your favorite
little phrases when the logic of the opposing argument overwhelmed
your ability to logically reply.
From: Melissa Danforth
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Eat more shit. Billions of flies cant be wrong.
From: Bernd Illig
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I don't know what deity you worship, however, you might want to fall
on your knees and ask for help, nay, pray for intercession...because
you're sure as hell not doing very well on your own.
From: No_One
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You are a hack writer with a nickles worth of intelligence and two
pennies worth of talent.  You embrace mediocrity the way a drunken
sailor embraces a five dollar whore.    You are a god in your kingdom
of mediocrity, alas, it's still mediocre.
From: No_One
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Suggesting ANC do research is like suggesting ANC think...to him both
are odious chores, hence, the fluff.
From: No_One
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Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, more powereful than a
locomotive..LOOK!!...Up in the sky!!..it's a bird .. it's a
plane...IT'S SUPermannnnnnnahhhhh..ahh...Damn.  Sorry people, my
mistake, it's just ANC of Adams-Blake with his head up his ass on
another flight of fancy.
From: No_One
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You really should see someone about your persecution complex though.
As amusing as it is to exploit your psychological issues for my own
enjoyment, I would be remiss if I did not point out that you should
seek professional help.
From: Melissa Danforth
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In way, being an ass is a lot like mathmatics - despite cultural and
language barriers, they are both easily recognized for what they are.
From: Franklin
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Slackware: Profiable since 1993.
Slackware: Because Linus didn't make a distrobution.
From: Faux_Pseudo
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Slackware: Still better than Yggdrasil
From: Faux_Pseudo
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Most of the questions are about how to tell 'it' what 'it' should do,
not people complaining about something that doesn't work although it's
configured the right way.
From: Gerhard Wallraf
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Has it occurred to anyone that, maybe, perhaps, by chance,
Slackware *IS* the slogan.....
From: No_One
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A reprobate lecturing on the human condition....gotta love usenet,
more than I can bare, or is it bear or maybe beer...ah..beer, there's
an idea.
From: No_One
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I am glad that the advice I offered up was so helpful to you.
You do not have to thank me, your quote, insult, unquote is enough of
a vailed thanks and will suffice, but you are welcome all the same - I
am glad to have helped.
From: Wayne
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Slackware: works better than a Cuban cigar.
Slackware: four out of five dentists recommend slackware
Slackware: because Slack don't need no damn slogan
Slackware: because Al can't use it
Slackware: The One
Slackware: Profiable since 1993.
Slackware: Because Linus didn't make a distrobution.
Slackware: Because SLS sucked.
Slackware: Who needs gnome anyway?
Slackware: rm -fr $competition
Slackware: Every job has its tool.
Slackware: Better than rolling your own.
Slackware: Put a pipe in your penguin.
Slackware: Still better than Yggdrasil
Slackware: All I ask is for a .rc and an editor to steer her by.
Slackware: Why rpm or apt when you can make something?
Slackware: The One True Operating System
Slackware: cordially, as always
Slackware: pgp trash troll delete
Slackware: sneering at others, always
Slackware: so good, even the RM troll can't drive people away from it.
Slackware: Mostly Harmless
Slackware: you get the slack, we take care of the ware.
Slackware: Mu
Slackware: It's not about market share
Slackware: Sucks Less
Slackware: because we know what we are doing
Slackware: Linux because: Barf Barf! Woooo Growl! Chew Chew!
Slackware: we don't need a slogan to login.
Slackware: not a fluffy chew toy
Slackware: we ARE the Joneses. Can you keep up?
Slackware: Because it /fits/
Slackware: BECAUSE IT WALKS!
Slackware: Keep it simple, stupid!
Slackware: We will not release till it's time.
Slackware: If I want shit from you I'll give your head a squeeze.
Slackware: If I want some lip from you, I'll scrape it off my zipper. 
Slackware: If you know how to do it in Slackware, you know how to do it in Linux.
Slackware: It does exactly what it should.
Slackware: It keeps the original sources as much as possible.
Slackware: It works :-) 
Slackware: It just works
Slackware: Because SuSE is for pussies, Gentoo is for nerds and Debian is for posers! 
Slackware: When you get serious
Slackware: Simplicity is divine
Slackware: It works; Elegant and Simple
Slackware: Linux From Scratch, just not from scratch.
Slackware: What the BOZOs use.
Slackware: Have you ever actually needed PAM for anything?
Slackware: Sucks Less.
Slackware: There really are real nerds left using Linux.
Slackware: Elitists, and damn proud of it!
Slackware: Sucks less - but our users makes up for it. ;)
Slackware: linux for those who dare. 
Slackware or vaporware - a simple choise
Slackware: Anything but loose
Slackware: because rebooting is for adding new hardware
Slackware: because I like to edit text files.
Slackware: because it works.
Slackware: because Bob recommends it.
Slackware: because I am in charge of my computer. 
From: AOLS
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