jae@hou2g.UUCP (J.ELKINS) (03/18/85)
Dear Users of the net:
First of all, I want to apologize to everyone who was
inconvenienced by the article I posted last week. This is the
article:
4Subject: Van or Carpool to Whippany
I need to join a vanpool or carpool from East Brunswick
(or the New Brunswick area) to Whippany. I will be beginning
this commute in April or May. I can be contacted at (201) 949-
6146 or 254-1675.
Jay Elkins
HO 3J-234
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The situation is that I am in the midst of a transfer to
Whippany, and I live 50 miles away from it. I was in a
desperate need to find some ride-sharing, and someone
suggested putting an ad in the net. Being unfamiliar with
use of the net I posted an article, and then made a list
of the categories I should probably send it to. Unfortunately
"general" was one of them.
The response I got from this was truly awful. Some
people made such personal remarks about my intelligence
and ignorance that I will never post anything after
this carpool issue is resolved, whether I have
information useful to users or not. The following
is a note that some insensitive shmuck sent me. I
called him on the phone afterward and he contended
that if I called him, I must indeed be what he said I am.
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From uucp Mon Mar 18 09:30 EST 1985
>From jf4 Mon Mar 18 09:27:41 1985 remote from bonnie
Date: 18 Mar 85 09:27:41 EST (Mon)
From: bonnie!jf4
Full-Name: John Fourney
Message-Id: <8503181427.AA08956@bonnie.UUCP>
Received: by bonnie.UUCP; id AA08956; 18 Mar 85 09:27:41 EST (Mon)
To: clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hou2g!jae
Subject: Re: WH carpool
References: <419@hou2g.UUCP>
hello - i know of an opening but you really seem obnoxious.
sorry
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Thanks to the folks who sent me information along with
their criticism. I have also sent a note to net.flame.
Jay Elkins
"If most things aren't funny, then they're only
exactly what they are."