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From: Dave Searles on 17 Sep 2009 03:02 Lars Enderin wrote: > Lew wrote: >> "Dave Searles" wrote: >>>> Number four certainly is a personal criticism. It's a statement that he >>>> expects my code to contain serious bugs, which is clearly a direct >>>> questioning of my competence. The others imply indirect such >>>> questioning. >> >> Kenneth P. Turvey wrote: >>> I really get sick of these kinds of threads. He didn't say anything >>> that was an attack on you. The idea that new code is more likely to >>> have bugs than old code is simply true... even if you are the best >>> programmer that ever lived. >>> Get a thicker skin. >> >> This thread has truly been Twisted off its path. What does feeding >> the troll do to further the topic? >> > Yes, Dave Searles must be Twisted, a k a Jerry Gerrone, etc, etc. No, I am Dave Searles. I don't know Jerry. > comp.lang.emacs No such newsgroup. > This Twisted character is beyond salvation. He deserves no respect. "This Twisted character" is not even known to me. A search for recent posts by "twisted" turns up zilch and one for "Jerry Gerrone" turns up just three posts, one in response to the newsgroup stats thread and apparently apropos of nothing and two in the factory objects thread. Those two just seem to be stating that some insults aren't true. None of the three seems worthy of major disrespect, though none of them is on topic either.
From: Dave Searles on 17 Sep 2009 03:03 Kenneth P. Turvey wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:33:12 +0000, Lars Enderin wrote: > >> Yes, Dave Searles must be Twisted, a k a Jerry Gerrone, etc, etc. No, I'd never heard of Mr. Gerrone until today. > I plonked him. Who, Gerrone or me? There seems to be some confusion here. > I may look at his message ids and see if there is a way to kill any > message for which he is in the references. These threads are getting > really annoying. People like you keeping on posting flames and off-topic garbage is how they get that way.
From: Dave Searles on 17 Sep 2009 03:05 Kenneth P. Turvey wrote: > Apparently he is posting through news.eternal-september.org. I am posting through that server, and so are thousands of other people. The only posts by Jerry I can find are posted via Google Groups. If you hate Jerry and don't want to read any of his posts I suggest you filter Google, not eternal-september.
From: Dave Searles on 17 Sep 2009 03:06 Arne Vajhøj wrote: > Lew wrote: >> "Dave Searles" wrote: >>>> Number four certainly is a personal criticism. It's a statement that he >>>> expects my code to contain serious bugs, which is clearly a direct >>>> questioning of my competence. The others imply indirect such >>>> questioning. >> >> Kenneth P. Turvey wrote: >>> I really get sick of these kinds of threads. He didn't say anything >>> that was an attack on you. The idea that new code is more likely to >>> have bugs than old code is simply true... even if you are the best >>> programmer that ever lived. >>> Get a thicker skin. >> >> This thread has truly been Twisted off its path. What does feeding >> the troll do to further the topic? > > Keep him occupied so he do not spam other threads. Are you accusing me of being a spammer? Or that Jerry fella? I don't know about him, but I most certainly am not a spammer, and given the severe penalties that accused spammers face, I'm afraid I shall have to contemplate taking legal action against anyone who falsely accuses me of spamming.
From: Arved Sandstrom on 17 Sep 2009 05:19
In article <h8smok$plj$4(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Dave Searles <searles(a)hoombah.nurt.bt.uk> wrote: > Arne Vajhøj wrote: > > Dave Searles wrote: > >> Lew wrote: > >>> Kenneth P. Turvey wrote: > >>>> Get a thicker skin. > >>> > >>> What does feeding the troll do to further the topic? > >> > >> To what troll do you refer? Peter Duniho? Yourself? > > > > You. > > But I am not a troll. For what it's worth I personally don't think you are either. I get the drift that you like contributing to various threads, in a positive way, just like most of us do. I'll say this though, this is a typical technical Usenet group, considerably less critical than most, and way more lenient than many mailing lists. The fact is, this is not the workplace, and if someone thinks your opinions are technically unsound, it will get pointed out without pulling any punches. There is usually no reason to take anything like that as a personal attack; just assume that some of the political niceties that we all observe in a workplace setting don't apply on Usenet quite so much. AHS |