posts about Terhune

"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
dadiOH wrote:

I find the current jokes and general discussion of his "status"
in poor taste. No one knows where he is or how he is and I think
you should drop the subject. I for one find these posts in
really bad taste.

+1

-1

I see no evidence of jokes or bad taste. Perhaps dadiOH and hemeroid
would like to point them out.

And besides, Gary could have always chosen to post under an alias if
he
wanted. What expectation of privacy do you have when you're not
trying
to hide your identity?

No one knows where he is

I believe I posted sufficient evidence to the contrary.

The entire thread is in bad taste, is in fact despicable. Doing an
online search and then posting a phone number that may or may not be
Gary's is beyond bad taste by quite a bit. You apparently value no
one's privacy but your own. Now we will likely be treated to an abusive
discourse by you on how *you* know how to protect your privacy, and if
someone else didn't plan in advance for it, then they deserve to have
their privacy invaded by mean-spirited people such as yourself. When
Gary and countless others were posting here with our real names and
email addresses for quite a number of years, in order to further help
the, at that time, sincere group of folks posting, the Internet was a
far different place and privacy was not a large concern. We took
private emails for extra help as a matter of course. You were nowhere
to be seen, you were not here helping anyone, all through the late
1990's and very early 2000's.
Once contact info is available, it remains. That doesn't require you to
post other's personal info here, except to be a mean-spirited person.

It is just this sort of talking-behind-someone's-back thread and all the
references to someone's death when there is no evidence of it, that has
dragged this once-helpful group down into a sewer of personal attacks.

The comments made in these threads about Gary, about "God's intentions",
and the attempted humour the idea of Gary's death, I find personally
offensive to the extreme. Having dealt with the deaths of three of the
closest people in my life in the past year, one of them horribly tragic,
I can only find the whole lot of you, and your comments, sickening. You
are a bunch of spoiled and cruel children.

I am done with this group, and good riddance.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
A+
http://dts-l.net/

On Feb 10, 8:09*am, "glee" wrote:
....snip...
The comments made in these threads about Gary, about "God's intentions",
and the attempted humour the idea of Gary's death, I find personally
offensive to the extreme. *Having dealt with the deaths of three of the
closest people in my life in the past year, one of them horribly tragic,
I can only find the whole lot of you, and your comments, sickening. *You
are a bunch of spoiled and cruel children.

I am done with this group, and good riddance.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP *Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
A+http://dts-l.net/

Sincere condolences to you and your family.

On Feb 10, 8:09*am, "glee" wrote:
....snip...
The comments made in these threads about Gary, about "God's intentions",
and the attempted humour the idea of Gary's death, I find personally
offensive to the extreme. *Having dealt with the deaths of three of the
closest people in my life in the past year, one of them horribly tragic,
I can only find the whole lot of you, and your comments, sickening. *You
are a bunch of spoiled and cruel children.

I am done with this group, and good riddance.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP *Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
A+http://dts-l.net/

Sincere condolences to you and your family.

glee wrote:

The entire thread is in bad taste, is in fact despicable.

I did not start this thread, and it is not despicable.

Doing an online search and then posting a phone number that
may or may not be Gary's is beyond bad taste by quite a bit.

If the address and phone number does not belong to the Gary S Terhune
that we are talking about, then there can be no harm done.

If that is Gary's real address and phone number, then he (like thousands
or millions of other people) can choose to have unlisted phone numbers.

Do you want me to post your address and phone number here? Do you think
if I don't, that others reading this would be blocked from discovering
it themselves by doing a few simple searches?

You apparently value no one's privacy but your own.

Take that bogus argument up with yellowpages or whitepages or 411.com or
myspace or facebook or linkedin, etc. I'm not the maintainer of those
information data-bases that make such information freely and publically
available.

Now we will likely be treated to an abusive discourse by you
on how *you* know how to protect your privacy,

Show me the abusive nature of my argument. That you need to rely on
hyperbolic statements to bolster your argument is obvious.

and if someone else didn't plan in advance for it, then they
deserve to have their privacy invaded by mean-spirited people
such as yourself.

Mean-spirited? What kind of pussy are you?

Mean spirited would be to hire a private detective to track Gary down,
determine non-published address and phone number, take and post
surveilence pictures of him, post private material that he may have
given me in confidence, etc. Where did I do any of that?

When Gary and countless others were posting here with our real
names and email addresses for quite a number of years, in order
to further help the, at that time, sincere group of folks posting,

This is not about what he or you or I did or did not do in the past, in
this newsgroup or any other.

I don't know why you think that's relevent.

the Internet was a far different place and privacy was not a
large concern. We took private emails for extra help as a
matter of course.

So you're saying that once you start posting using your real identity,
back in the good'ol days, that there are rules that you can't later drop
your real identity and use a handle?

Just because you can explain why things are the way they are doesn't
mean it couldn't have been different, and that people don't or didn't
have choices.

You were nowhere to be seen, you were not here helping anyone,
all through the late 1990's and very early 2000's.

Why are you linking my presence and my perceived value to this
newsgroup, to this issue?

Are you saying that if I was here, actively posting during that time
frame, that it would give me a free pass to post Gary's address and
phone number today? That it would have been acceptible for me to do so?

What argument exactly are you trying to make?

Once contact info is available, it remains. That doesn't require
you to post other's personal info here, except to be a mean-
spirited person.

I responded to a thread with credible and pertinent information. I did
not start the thread.

How is that being "mean-spirited" ?

It is just this sort of talking-behind-someone's-back thread
and all the references to someone's death when there is no
evidence of it

I did not make the initial suggestion that he might be dead, and in fact
the information that I subsequently posted supported the idea that he is
not dead.

Why are you not taking these matters up with Bill and PCR, who started
this thread and (particularly PCR) initiated the discussion around
Gary's health and mortality.

that has dragged this once-helpful group down into a sewer of
personal attacks. The comments made in these threads about
Gary, about "God's intentions", and the attempted humour
the idea of Gary's death, I find personally offensive to the
extreme.

Why are you reluctant to direct those observations to specific people
here?

I am done with this group, and good riddance.

You spend more time posting to XP newsgroups anyways, so it's obvious
that you're leaving more because of your interest in XP. You can
pretend it's because of some other reason if you want. And take your
high horse with you.

glee wrote:
"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
dadiOH wrote:

I find the current jokes and general discussion of his "status"
in poor taste. No one knows where he is or how he is and I think
you should drop the subject. I for one find these posts in
really bad taste.

+1

-1

I see no evidence of jokes or bad taste. Perhaps dadiOH and hemeroid
would like to point them out.

And besides, Gary could have always chosen to post under an alias if
he
wanted. What expectation of privacy do you have when you're not
trying
to hide your identity?

No one knows where he is

I believe I posted sufficient evidence to the contrary.

The entire thread is in bad taste, is in fact despicable. Doing an
online search and then posting a phone number that may or may not be
Gary's is beyond bad taste by quite a bit. You apparently value no
one's privacy but your own. Now we will likely be treated to an abusive
discourse by you on how *you* know how to protect your privacy, and if
someone else didn't plan in advance for it, then they deserve to have
their privacy invaded by mean-spirited people such as yourself. When
Gary and countless others were posting here with our real names and
email addresses for quite a number of years, in order to further help
the, at that time, sincere group of folks posting, the Internet was a
far different place and privacy was not a large concern. We took
private emails for extra help as a matter of course. You were nowhere
to be seen, you were not here helping anyone, all through the late
1990's and very early 2000's.
Once contact info is available, it remains. That doesn't require you to
post other's personal info here, except to be a mean-spirited person.

It is just this sort of talking-behind-someone's-back thread and all the
references to someone's death when there is no evidence of it, that has
dragged this once-helpful group down into a sewer of personal attacks.

The comments made in these threads about Gary, about "God's intentions",
and the attempted humour the idea of Gary's death, I find personally
offensive to the extreme. Having dealt with the deaths of three of the
closest people in my life in the past year, one of them horribly tragic,
I can only find the whole lot of you, and your comments, sickening. You
are a bunch of spoiled and cruel children.

I am done with this group, and good riddance.

I for one am sorry to see you go, Glen. I just try to ignore some of this
crap and not let it ruin everything, and would wish you could do the same.
I agree it's gotten worse, however. But then again, that's true for a lot
of things it seems these days (not the technology, but the "sociology")
Just another sign of the times...

glee wrote:
"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
dadiOH wrote:

I find the current jokes and general discussion of his "status"
in poor taste. No one knows where he is or how he is and I think
you should drop the subject. I for one find these posts in
really bad taste.

+1

-1

I see no evidence of jokes or bad taste. Perhaps dadiOH and hemeroid
would like to point them out.

And besides, Gary could have always chosen to post under an alias if
he
wanted. What expectation of privacy do you have when you're not
trying
to hide your identity?

No one knows where he is

I believe I posted sufficient evidence to the contrary.

The entire thread is in bad taste, is in fact despicable. Doing an
online search and then posting a phone number that may or may not be
Gary's is beyond bad taste by quite a bit. You apparently value no
one's privacy but your own. Now we will likely be treated to an abusive
discourse by you on how *you* know how to protect your privacy, and if
someone else didn't plan in advance for it, then they deserve to have
their privacy invaded by mean-spirited people such as yourself. When
Gary and countless others were posting here with our real names and
email addresses for quite a number of years, in order to further help
the, at that time, sincere group of folks posting, the Internet was a
far different place and privacy was not a large concern. We took
private emails for extra help as a matter of course. You were nowhere
to be seen, you were not here helping anyone, all through the late
1990's and very early 2000's.
Once contact info is available, it remains. That doesn't require you to
post other's personal info here, except to be a mean-spirited person.

It is just this sort of talking-behind-someone's-back thread and all the
references to someone's death when there is no evidence of it, that has
dragged this once-helpful group down into a sewer of personal attacks.

The comments made in these threads about Gary, about "God's intentions",
and the attempted humour the idea of Gary's death, I find personally
offensive to the extreme. Having dealt with the deaths of three of the
closest people in my life in the past year, one of them horribly tragic,
I can only find the whole lot of you, and your comments, sickening. You
are a bunch of spoiled and cruel children.

I am done with this group, and good riddance.

I for one am sorry to see you go, Glen. I just try to ignore some of this
crap and not let it ruin everything, and would wish you could do the same.
I agree it's gotten worse, however. But then again, that's true for a lot
of things it seems these days (not the technology, but the "sociology")
Just another sign of the times...

Don't go Glee. Yours is one of the only voices of reason left !!
--
pebble in Boulder

Don't go Glee. Yours is one of the only voices of reason left !!
--
pebble in Boulder

"thanatoid" wrote in message
...
FWIW, even though I though Gary was a jerk and we had a serious
and permanent falling out within a few days of our first thread,
I find the current jokes and general discussion of his "status"
in poor taste. No one knows where he is or how he is and I think
you should drop the subject. I for one find these posts in
really bad taste.




'really bad taste'

i agree and that's the reason i replied earlier

i like things that are in really bad taste1

"thanatoid" wrote in message
...
FWIW, even though I though Gary was a jerk and we had a serious
and permanent falling out within a few days of our first thread,
I find the current jokes and general discussion of his "status"
in poor taste. No one knows where he is or how he is and I think
you should drop the subject. I for one find these posts in
really bad taste.




'really bad taste'

i agree and that's the reason i replied earlier

i like things that are in really bad taste1