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[bubosquared]

Subject: TBF
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 22:08:25 +0100
From: Sofie 'Melle' Werkers
Organization: femgeeks dot net -- for chicks with byte
To: hcl@squidge.org

Hi,

A little note from the author of the FMO, here. Just wanted to tell you that the FMO was never intended to convert people to the beauty of RPS. It was meant to point out that RPS is not any more illegal than FPS, that it's not necessarily morally wrong, and that people should stop overreacting about it.

Do you honestly think that being linked to by an RPS site is going tomake people think you "approve" of it? I'm not gonna call you a nazi cunt or whatever, but I'm gonna respectfully suggest you trade in some of that ego and get some common sense.

Congratulations, by the way, for making it into my top three of Irresponsible, Drama Queen Archivists/Listmods.

Melle

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Whoops, just realised my URL is in that sig. Oh no! I associated hre with RPS! Sob!

Comments

[darksong.livejournal.com]

I think it's obvious to anyone that just because someone else links to your site that it doesn't mean you support it. I know that. Even some of the links on my website I don't endorse 100% (such as Dark Side of the Net--there's links to pages about Satanism and such...I don't adovocate that, but is that enough to make me not want to link to the site? No...).

I think people need to stop worrying so much about what people may think about them. There's other things to be concerned about.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

The thing is, especially with RPS, people (on both sides) get extremely paranoid. Seriously,I could tell you war stories ...

[shihadchick.livejournal.com]

::applauds soundly::

Well put... ::giggle::

[arami.livejournal.com]

*grin* That really is great :))

trade in some of that ego and get some common sense

Oh we can only be so lucky *giggle*

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. :D

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[arami.livejournal.com]

*g* Yes thank god :)))

[rsadelle]

*blink* You are confrontational today.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I think it was the fact that she's an archivist, and I have strong ideas on proper behaviour for an archivist, and, well. Once I'm pushed over the line, it takes a lot to push me back. :)

[(Anonymous)]

The hilarious part is said archivist writes RPS herself in private.

[mydarkstar.livejournal.com]

*blink blink* Hah! I was starting to suspect that that vehemence might have had a reason along those lines...details?

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Argh! See, this is what pisses me off. I mean the "I write RPS, but I hide it, and you should, too!" attitude is at least comprehensible up to a certain level. But "I don't want to be associated with RPS, so I'm going to close down an archive so RPSers can't link to it, despite writing RPS myself."

This is me, baffled to hell.

[mydarkstar.livejournal.com]

It's called "hypocrisy." Dude, it's starting to look like every time someone goes off on an unreasonably vicious anti-RPS rant, they end up having these skeletons in their closets. It's positively Cruisian.

Also, I got a reply to the mail I sent her, mentioning that I was being "condescending." Because, you know, taking down an entire archive and leaving in its place a snotty note about not wanting to be associated with those people is the height of class and maturity.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Cruisian? o_O

It's kind of hard not to be condescending when people are burying their heads in the sand.