On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 01:40, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake Jamie Lawrence: > > On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net wrote, after several other > > similarly toned messages: > > > > First time I've had to killfile someone on a Debian list. > > Oh, so *he* is back... He found a place in mine back when his > waste-of-bits messages to linux-kernel were coming through regularly. I > don't think I ever saw him offer a coherent, helpful, or otherwise > useful in any way statement. > > -- > Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net> > > "I'm gonna moon you, man, I'm gonna MOON you!!" "Well, that's gonna be > tough, 'cause you really don't have a hinder to speak of." -Crow/Tom > Servo. #415 In any open organisation with some degree of anonymity for participants, someone seems to graduate to a Doctorate of Jerkiness. From what I've seen of discussions on debian-devel, there are various participants that elicit the reaction of some others that they have attained such a status. However, among that group, they are performing constructive tasks in support of Debian. I regret that such is not the case in this situation. I have been around all manner of newsgroups and mailing lists over my 20 years on Usenet and the Internet, and encountered numerous plonking candidates over that time, but I have largely avoided that, settling only for thread killing. There are those that I have regularly and chronically disagreed with on issue after issue, but I do not killfile them. Only two have earned that over the years - Tim Martin of the comp.os.os2.* groups who runs WarpCity.com, and seemed chronically, obsessively driven to pick fights with anyone - usually to his humiliation (Tim liked to attack people for posting from non-OS/2 systems when nothing else was working - only for it to be pointed out that his "all OS/2, only OS/2" website ran on BSD iirc.) Hell.Surfers is the other. There is nothing constructive from either of them. :( -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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