Subject: Louie Raffloer's offensive remark

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 12:24:22 -0400

Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:40:13 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Louie Raffloer <[email-masked]>

>    I really can't believe you geeks are supporting that stupid joke!!
>It was cliche and void of any humor at all.Get off your asses and get 
>back into your shops,maybe a few hours of swinging hammers will cure the 
>boredom that your dullard senses of humor are indicative of.GET TO WORK!!

Louie: this is an open note for the rest of us to share as well as a personal
comment on your extreme remarks to the members of this list.  It was more
than an opinion about a certain post, but is more of a derogatory put down of
the folks who are engaged in the kind of work that we do.  I resent it and so
do others, I'm sure.

Geeks? We are hardly that Louie by any stretch of the imagination.
 Dulllards?  No, you're wrong about that too.  The implication that those of
us who read are only sitting back on our asses?  Wrong again, Louie.

I don't care for flames and you really pissed me off because now I'm on your
level and maybe this is the kind of thing that you're looking for.  Attention
and reaction that highlights the focus on you, in an immature manner, isn't
something that is appreciated even though we are big enough folks on a whole,
to accomodate a variety of  subjects.  

It's unnerving to see our dignity trashed the way you've carelessly done
without any obvious knowledge or forethought about who you are addressing
your remarks to.  The folks on this list take great pride and justifiably so,
in the skilled work that they do, and with that kind of endeavor, there is a
robustness of spirit and individuality that partners itself hand in hand with
the whole process.  Geeks? Dullards? Lazy? No way Louie.

Perhaps it would be best for the rest of us if you would shut down your
computer and get back to work yourself now, and come back another time when
you've acquired more than your current skills and are competent to address us
as equals if not as a craftsman then at least as a socially adjusted
individual.

Chris Ray

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From: Louie Raffloer <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 14:00:12 -0700 (PDT)

Oh Chris your so sexy when you're mad.