From langham Sent Thu, Jul 16th 1998, 14:14
From langham Sent Thu, Jul 16th 1998, 14:14
>or, more accurately, idm doesn't need *you*. if you can't be the least bit open-minded, or, at least, tolerant, idm is not the place for you.
Oh, ok. Hey, sorry, everybody, my bad. I guess i missed the part where this nebulous thing known as "idm" spontaneously evolved, developed an intelligent brain, and starting having desires and needs like the rest of us. I must have been napping when idm started needing and not needing things--hey, like me, for example. Damn--idm doesn't need me. I'm gonna go jump off a building. No, really.
>i don't see anything worthwhile coming from your account. no reviews? discussion? answers to questions?
Not knowing a whole lot about idm does not deny me the right to light-heartedly protest a Beastie Boys post on an idm (that's "idm," now) list. But I guess on this list you have to earn an opinion by way of reviews, discussions, or answers to questions. Only when I start contributing to, say, the import ban discussion, can I become a productive, worthwhile, and valuable member of this list. And I can't just sit and read mail, I am required to put some out, too, risk the criticism of my mailing-list peers. Hey, maybe there should be a quota--every list member must submit, say, 4 posts per week. I think that's reasonable.
So I'll get to work on my third and fourth posts for this week (they'll be real worthwhile, i promise). No, actually, I'll go back to just reading mail, occasionally making a joke when I see fit.
Eat me.
Geoff.
.don't ever say i'm wrong. you have to earn your right to have an opinion in a system i have devised.
"You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends' noses. I'm the king of the world!"--James Cameron