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- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 22:47:29 UTC
- Subject: Anathama maranatha, or Jihad of The Right Reverend
-
-
-
- NOMINATING: Colin "The Right Reverend" James III,
- cjames@cec-services.com, as Kook Of The Month.
- Vote early, vote often!
-
- Jihad on biz.*, comp.* and soc.* groups by
- The Right Reverend Colin James III
-
- VOTE BY EMAIL TO mlegare@wetware.com!!!
-
- The Right Reverend CJIII appears to have set the absolute
- Usenet record on the number of complaints to sysadmins and/or
- employers: in the last three months, he has complained about at
- least 60 (!) people by e-mail, fax and phone.
-
- The whole thing started when CJIII posted some rather weird
- messages about a sort method ("BSAM") that he had allegedly invented.
- Being confronted with the fact that he did not understand the
- key aspect of his "invention" (namely, how to estimate
- performance), he anathemized and excommunicated his opponents and started
- sending complaints to their sysadmins, bosses, the
- Inspector General (for posters working on government
- contracts), etc.
-
- The mass anathemizing reminiscent of the witch trials in the mid-evil
- Europe remained a comp.lang.*-specific phenomenon
- for some time, then somehow spilled to news.admin.* and soc.culture.*,
- with the numbers of the faithless ones
- condemned to fire and brimstone greatly increasing.
-
- For your enlightenment and spiritual purification, a fine
- selection of the Right Reverend's generous contributions to
- Usenet is offered below.
-
- We hope that these morsels of divinely inspired wisdom make you
- see the light and reward the piousness and perseverance of the
- RR CJIII with the most appropriate and well-earned title of the
- Kook of the Month.
-
- Read on and vote "YES" (mailto:mlegare@wetware.com).
-
- Collection of the selected prose by Colin James III follows.
-
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-
- CJIII's "estimate" of complexity of his BSAM method:
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