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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Moderated List????
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 11:57:50 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- Message-ID: <1jonfuINNt5t@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <01GTMO8378VA8WVZWM@ZENO.MSCD.EDU> <1993Jan20.000331.3865@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> <1jj897INNqik@gap.caltech.edu>,<2140@bdrc.bdrc.bd.com>
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- In article <2140@bdrc.bdrc.bd.com>, woody@bdrc.bd.com (Woody Muller) writes:
- >>For what it's worth:
- >> Ehud has left the newsgroup.
- >
- >How sad. But what about all the people *you've* chased away from this
- >forum, Carl? There are lots of folks on Usenet with varied interests
- >and environments, people who have no desire to have your kind of mile-
- >deep and yard-wide knowledge. These people have questions, and they
- >also have answers to questions in other subjects.
-
- Well, I try not to flame people who have at least a LITTLE understanding of
- what they're doing. I have flamed (and will continue to flame) people who post
- questions of the form:
- This doesn't work (vague description of that "this" might be, and *NO*
- indication whatever of how it failed to work.
- >Sometimes these people browse through a group and ask a question. Maybe
- >it's not that good a question. And like some high-school bully (like
- >the ones that may have pushed you around years ago) you inflict abuse
- >on some poor soul who does not deserve it.
-
- That's where you and I differ. I think someone too bloody stupid to realize
- that if he wants help, he needs to tell us EXACTLY what he did and EXACTLY what
- happened, deserves to be flamed. Unlike you, I'm not a mindreader, and
- consider such posts more fit for alt.paranormal or talk.religion.newage.
-
- >You think your mile-deep
- >and yard-wide knowledge gives you a license to flame, but a jerk is a
- >jerk is a jerk. You're playing king of the vms molehill.
-
- Well, you seem to be an expert on jerks, being one yourself.
-
- >You have fostered an environment of confrontation and abuse, Carl, and
- >a lot of knowledgeable people who dislike confrontation and abuse
- >stay quiet. The "newbies" you are so fond of bullying are a
- >completely new crop of news browsers from the "newbies" you bullied
- >away from the group a few months ago -- and there will be more next
- >month. That's the way of the net.browsers -- remember, this newsgroup
- >goes beyond the INFO-VAX mailing list. Live with it.
-
- I refuse to live complacently with abject stupidity, no matter how much you may
- wish to wallow in it.
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-