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Re: While Bush fiddles, New Orleans dies

  • From: Stephen J. Wilcox
  • Date: Wed Sep 07 09:23:53 2005

Apologies to the 'dawg..

perhaps those responsible would stop, its not very amusing

Steve

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:

> I absolutely am _not_ responsible in any way, shape, or form, for those
> messages.
> 
> While some of my posts skirt the ever-changing topicality of the list, you
> have to admit -- I always send directly from my webmail account (wouldn't
> dream of sending from my corporate account :-)
> 
> - ferg
>
> -- Robert E.Seastrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> "Stephen J. Wilcox" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > wheres the ops in this? 
> >
> > dont get me wrong, i'm sympathetic with new orleans and also
> > definitely not a bush supporter but this is verging on incitement
> > and i dont see the point of the post to here
> 
> My guess: someone who doesn't like Paul (and there are plenty of
> people who have groused privately about his prolific posting of
> current news stories) is trying to make him look bad (or doing a
> savage parody, depending on how you look at it) by abusing the
> http://www.tribuneinteractive.com/ "mail someone this story" feature.
> Look at the headers...  it was obviously sent by tribuneinteractive,
> and it's pretty unlike Paul to do something like this.
> 
> So that's my hypothesis anyway.  We'll wait till Paul is awake to be
> able to confirm or deny it.
> 
>                                         ---Rob
> 
> --
> "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
>  [email protected] or [email protected]
>  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
> 
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