From solovay@netcom.com Wed Mar 24 13:44:49 1993
Newsgroups: alt.messianic,alt.religion.emacs
From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay)
Subject: Re: Are all Jews *really* stupid?? (was: Re: *Classic Testimony: Batyah*)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 02:17:33 GMT

In article  billg@bony1.bony.com (Bill Gripp) writes:
>In article <1okfa6$6d9@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> friedenb@willow.egr.msu.edu (Gedaliah Friedenberg) writes:
>
>>First and foremost:  No one is going to read your posts if you continue to
>>format them with no hard returns.  
>
>Gedaliah,
>
>In case you haven't noticed, your posts are starting to run to around 85
>columns or so now.  Could Harvey be sucessfully "evangelizing" you???  =B^)

C'mon, everyone. It's all very simple. Just execute the following
commands:

M-x text-mode
M-x auto-fill-mode
C-u 70 M-x set-fill-column

You *do* all use the One True Editor, don't you? C'mon, everyone,
let's sing Hymn #219:

	What a friend we have in EMACS,
	  All our text-problems to halt!
	What a privilege to keypress
	  Control-meta-ESC-shift-alt!
-- 
Andrew M. Solovay    

"I have been Foolish and Deluded, 
 and I am a Bear of No Brain at All."     -- Pooh

From solovay@netcom.com Wed Mar 24 13:44:55 1993
From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs
Subject: Sorry about that subject line... (was Re: Are all Jews *really* stupid??)
Date: 24 Mar 93 01:54:45 GMT

I want to appologize for the subject line of this article's parent. A little
history: Someone on alt.messianic posted a missionizing article which
was seemingly aimed at very dim Jews. A (real) Jew on that group
responded with a post with the satirical subject line "Are all Jews
*really* stupid?" I emphasize that this was meant *ironically*.

Anyway, this thread degenerated into formatting flames, and I
responded to one of them with the hymn you saw. When I finished the
post, I decided that it would be appropriate to cross-post it to
alt.religion.emacs (An EMACS hymn? What could be more appropriate?). I
didn't consider how the subject line would look to someone joining the
thread in midstream.

(FWIW: I'm a Jew. Not a "Messianic Jew" or "Hebrew Christian" or "Jew
For Jesus", a Jew. I certainly didn't mean the post as antisemitic.)

Again, I apollogize. [See .sig block]

In article  solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay) writes:
>
>You *do* all use the One True Editor, don't you? C'mon, everyone,
>let's sing Hymn #219:
>
>	What a friend we have in EMACS,
>	  All our text-problems to halt!
>	What a privilege to keypress
>	  Control-meta-ESC-shift-alt!
-- 
Andrew M. Solovay    

"I have been Foolish and Deluded, 
 and I am a Bear of No Brain at All."     -- Pooh

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