BOC: Bolle - stirring up more trouble

[Stephen Swann]

Troy Harris writes:
>
> On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Stephen Swann wrote:
>
> > Troy Harris writes:
> > >
> > >   Perhaps next time when something is forwarded from *another* source we
> > > could see some CONTEXT.  The guy is entitled to his opinion, no?  If he
> > > doesn't like BOC-L so what?  If he thinks HW suck, so what?  So does my
> > > mom.  If he thinks that certain CDs are worth certain sums of money- so
> > > what?
> >
> > So, what you're saying is, Bolle is entitled to say whatever he wants
> > he wants about anything, but we aren't?  Help me out here, I'm having
> > a little trouble following this line of reasoning.
>
>   No I did not say that.  No wonder you can't follow the reasoning,
> because you are saying something that is not in the text.  You are being
> eisegetical, extrapolating meanings not intended. :). I said, simply
> put, he is entitled to his opinion- in his forum.  No one asked to see
> his opinion on *this* forum, did they?  So, regarding his opinions, let
> him have them.  Have yours too.  Let's just all make sure we are not
> just bickering aimlessly over stuff that doesn't mean much anyway.
>   The key word of this passage is "so what?".  At the end of the day- it
> makes no difference what Bolle or whoever thinks about this list, as long
> as those who enjoy it continue to do so.

Ah... now I see the point you were making.  Let me explain: his
opinions (which he is certainly entitled to, just as we are entitled
to our opinions of him) become a matter of our interest when he talks
publically about us.  And any Usenet newsgroup is a public platform:
the most public platform that has ever existed, as a matter of fact.

And while it's true that Bolle's opinion shouldn't matter that much to
me, I take it kind of personally, when the head of the Blue Oyster
Cult fan club repeatedly and publically disparages this list.  This
list, and many of its subscribers, were here long before "online
fandom" became so hip as to attract even the barely literate.  Finding
out that Bolle is making public statements to the effect that this
list "sux" is a little much for THIS veteran of the the internet wars,
thankyouverymuch.

> > Well, anybody's who's so free with his opinions must be used to what
> > people think of him by now.
>
> ....AND I don't think he cares.

Or understands, anyway.  Hell, he's not even *on* this freaking list,
but he just *knows* that it "sux" (I loved the irony of his following
that up by saying that ignorance "sux").

> > As for context, it's on alt.music.blueoystercult.  Anybody can fire up
> > a newsreader and see the whole post, in all its halfwit glory.  I did,
> > and I was mightily underwhelmed by the man's intellect.
>
>  Not everyone has access to this.

Anybody who doesn't get it (and cares) should take it up with their
internet provider.  Certainly it's available to anyone who wants it.

Steve
swann at panix.com