[Am-info] Congratulations!

[madodel@ptdprolog.net]

You are over analysing the the garbage spewed forth by a sick mind.   This
guy is obviously unstable.  Can you guarantee that his threats are
harmless?  If he persists in making threats of bodily harm to people on
the list then the proper authorities will be notified.  There is a line
that needs to be set and this person has crossed it.  


Mark

In <01102901271111.01373@punzel>, on 10/29/01 at 02:27 AM,
   felmon davis <davisf@union.edu> said:


>wow, this discussion's really taking a dumb turn! I haven't seen  stuff
>like this since I used to read a certain advocacy newsgroup. 

>are there linguistics studies of the flow of chat in email 
>lists/groups like this one? I think the thematic thread can get  weirdly
>out of joint, kind of like the game where people write down  something in
>reaction to what the preceding person wrote - when you  put all the lines
>together, you get schizoid texts - like this thread!

>Cooke used the above words to _illustrate_ something he thought 
>(falsely, I believe) was a logical consequence of what the preceding 
>writer had said. philosophers call it the 'use/mention' distinction:  he
>was just 'mentioning' the threat words, not 'using' them. Cooke  didn't
>use quotation-marks though and now the words are being cited  as if he
>had actually _used_ them to make a threat.

>as far as I can tell, the only thematically relevant subthread here  is
>the one about whether Windows is _intrinsically_ somehow  'virus-prone'
>although the 'terms of service' dispute is a fun  diversion. the
>name-calling and threats (or even 'threats') are not.



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