A question...and a quest
I am often an asshole.
More often, I am not an asshole, and it is those moments I choose to
claim as the mainstay of my true personality.
When I am an asshole, however, I fail to recognize that I am being an
asshole and it sometimes takes a person I love, whom I know loves me,
to tell me that I am being an asshole.
So...
My question is:
Can those of you to whom my behavior was indicative of an asshole's
behavior forgive my temporary yet recurring personality flaw and allow
me to state things in a more diplomatic way?
It is not the fact that posters choose to post in a way that protects
them that I find troubling, as I know posters need to protect
themselves, sometimes from their ISPs, sometimes from LEA, sometimes
the RIAA, and sometimes from overall self-exposure of their lifestyle
choices they wish to remain private.
What I find troubling is that when giving clues and instructions for
finding keys, pws, or other means of decoding and enjoying the contents
of posts, posters often neglect to mention that there are some risks
involved for the the lurker, especially the newbs, who might shoot off
an e-mail, download a linked file off the web, or otherwise risk
exposure of their activities because they are ignorant to the risks and
are only thinking, as someone said recently, "about getting off". It
could be said that by posting this message, I am demonstrating a lack
of security for myself, since my usenet provider might some day turn
corporate and reveal my personal information, quite unjudiciously, to
my country's LEA. That is a risk I take because I know it would mean
my country is no longer mine anyway, and such actions would prove that
to be so.
Meanwhile, the posters need to protect themselves, as do the lurkers,
and I just hope it can be a fact that is stressed above all here in
this group and other such groups, rather than the perceptions of
meanness and exclusion that permeate and perforate the usenet community.
Doc, your words choices can often be a source of attitude reorientation
for me. I sense no malice or superiority in your tone. You're just
trying to help.
So am I, but I have problems with my tone.
The "quest", as I mentioned in my subject line, is to find out of
anyone has the movie that the jpgs I am posting comes from and can post
it. I figure an apology with a request attached is a good way to
indicate that I am sorry for my tone, but not for my intent. I don't
often provide such challenges. I think it could be of some value to
someone.
Since the subject of the movie may "appear" to fit the title of the
jpgs, but I think probably does not but just appears to, I think the
post might be off-topic for this group. But I am hoping someone has
the movie and can post it here or another group where they think it
more on topic.
The password is the one now abandoned for the "by e-mail invitation
only" password.
It is the backward password.
TM
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