enough! (was Re: Intel+Cygnus+Optimized Compilers)

[Paul Derbyshire]

At 05:33 PM 3/1/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Paul is one such person that has violated my sense of what people
>should be allowed to do.

And you are free to killfile me if you don't like what I have to say.

[Attempt to attack me and cause me personal injury and grievances
 because of my preceived slight against him deleted]

Mr. Stump here seems to think that if something offends *him* *personally*
that he *chose to read* that that gives him the right to actually attempt
to cause the person whose article he chose to read some grief! My, my. How
about he (and anyone else who objects to some of what I have to say) just
killfile me, and not attempt to force their opinion down my throat or down
the throats of readers that do not mind me.

In any case, there is simply no justification for causing me personal
injury and grievance because you read something you could have chosen not
to read.

Moreover, I will add that if anyone, not limited to the Mr. Stump who has
actually had the gall to threaten me and then attempt to actually attack
me, successfully perpetrates an attack against me that impacts my quality
of life in any way or has any other negative consequences for me, then
whoever it is will be on the receiving end of something that will make
whatever they did to me look like a tempest in a teapot by comparison! In
particular, my retaliation shall be scaled to match their unprovoked
assault, and then some.

Please think carefully before you do something rash. If you feel prone to
doing something rash, use your killfile. Otherwise, you might live to
regret it for the rest of your life.

I am gentle when not threatened, but when bitten I bite back hard. You
attack me at your own peril.

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