dave@quest.UUCP (dave) (11/19/85)
> FOR SALE: > > On 1100 square meter lot in top-class residential wooded area, > 50 km from Amsterdam, a 7 year old 6 bedroom brick house (bun- > galow type). So, now Europe is doing it to us... -- David Messer UUCP: ...ihnp4!circadia!dave FIDO: 14/415 (SYSOP)
flaps@utcs.uucp (Alan J Rosenthal) (11/23/85)
I have a very strong complaint. Why is it that, when more than one for-sale
message a week is sent by america to europe, a SINGLE message in the months
I have been on the net which is sent by europe to america, causes such an
extreme reaction? This is a very unfair way to look at things.
--
Alan J Rosenthal
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CSNET: @toronto.csnet:flaps@utcs.uucpdgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) (11/27/85)
In article <992@utcs.uucp> flaps@utcs.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) writes: > >I have a very strong complaint. Why is it that, when more than one for-sale >message a week is sent by america to europe, a SINGLE message in the months >I have been on the net which is sent by europe to america, causes such an >extreme reaction? This is a very unfair way to look at things. We pioneers expect better from an older civilization. -- D Gary Grady Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-3695 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary
tp@ndm20 (12/04/85)
>I have a very strong complaint. Why is it that, when more than one for-sale >message a week is sent by america to europe, a SINGLE message in the months >I have been on the net which is sent by europe to america, causes such an >extreme reaction? This is a very unfair way to look at things. >Alan J Rosenthal Aren't we being just a little defensive here? This posting seems to have gotten less of a reaction than the infamous dining table in New Jersey. The reaction it did get was not out of scale to other reactions to previous similar postings. Don't feen picked on just because someone explicitly mentioned that the message was from europe. AT&T gets a lot of explicit mention for some of these things too, but they don't get bent out of shape about it (maybe they are just used to it by now :-). People outside of the US are very quick to point out inappropriate postings by americans ("Was it neccessary to send this message around the world?", "Will you deliver it to Australia?", etc.), yet at least a few europeans seem to get rather upset when the same standards are applied to them. Between this and the flap over net.internat, it seems that SOME (please note the qualification!) europeans (and probably elsewhere as well) who loudly complain about people in the US having a problem relating to the rest of the world ("the US is NOT the whole world", ("Would we have all these problems if it were USENIX rather than EUUG"), seem to also feel somehow that they are not bound to the same rules as the US. Net.news.group has been full of people justifying the method of creation of net.internat with arguments that reduce to that attitude. I don't want to open up the net.internat thing here in net.general, follow that up to net.news.group. My point here is that nobody is immune to bias, and your biases will show through the most when you try to criticize the biases of others. Most people who perceive that they are the victims of prejudice by members of a group hold similar (if not worse) prejudices against said group. Please examine your attitudes for such biases before you flame at someone else, or it will only show your own prejudices for the whole world to see. Terry Poot Nathan D. Maier Consulting Engineers (214)739-4741 Usenet: ...!{allegra|ihnp4}!convex!smu!ndm20!tp CSNET: ndm20!tp@smu ARPA: ndm20!tp%smu@csnet-relay.ARPA
pete@stc.UUCP (12/08/85)
Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: Xpath: stc stc-b stc-b stc-a Some people seem not to have read the original posting properly. To paraphrase, the poster said that he *intended* the posting to reach the US (world). It's not unreasonable to suppose that someone taking a job in the Netherlands might want to buy a house there. This is a long way from invitations to buy Hondas in California or Buicks in New Jersey that have been sent to the whole world due to *ignorance*. -- Peter Kendell <pete@stc.UUCP> ...!mcvax!ukc!stc!pete `I've suffered for my art. Now it's your turn.'
mmm@weitek.UUCP (Mark Thorson) (12/08/85)
Now that the dinette set has become so famous (or "infamous" as a previous poster put it), I'm curious whether it's still available and for how much. After all, what a conversation piece for the dining room: "Yes, that's THE Usenet dinette set". Mark Thorson (...!cae780!weitek!mmm)