From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 23 Mar 2010 09:05 On 2010-03-23 4:09 AM, dorayme wrote: > In article <80nad5F21nU1(a)mid.individual.net>, > Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote: >> John's utter unwillingness to listen to or acknowledge the advice that >> he asks for raises the suspicion in my mind that he is just trying to >> drive traffic to his web pages. > If your theory were right, you would need *yet another different > one* to explain the general trend of this subscriber's posts. So > try again Jeffrey and remember our wise old mate Bill, the good > William of Ockham. I was not familiar with the nature of his other posts. This is my first interaction with him. But from what you say, it seems that I am attributing more guile to him than is merited. Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read HTML or poorly quoting posts Reply-To address is valid
From: Warren Oates on 23 Mar 2010 09:20 In article <1jfstcc.ul93vwn0ul1cN%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > I suggest you study the teachings of the Church of the Blind Men and the > Elephant. Nah, Raj Patel is the messiah. Look it up. Naomi Klein is his handmaiden. -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Tom Harrington on 23 Mar 2010 12:02 In article <jwolf6589-DB327B.22040122032010(a)nntp.charter.net>, John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > In article <1jfrgea.rhyu5peb8ev4N%mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com>, > mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) wrote: > > > John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Someone has taken your otherwise good Word document and filled it with > > > > nonsense. You can restore it by opening it, choosing Edit-->Select all, > > > > and then pressing the delete key. > > > > > > I have no idea what you are talking about. > > > > He meant that you took a perfectly good blank document and screwed it up > > by typing in it. > > Actually CERM had been forwarded a number of documents on the topic and > I chose to post only a few of them on the website. For copyright reasons > I could only post the web articles, and got permission to post the PDF > and the HTML document I posted. I did not write that, but it is posted > on CERM. Well, _someone_ took a perfectly good document and screwed it up by typing in it. Maybe not you, but it did happen. -- Tom "Tom" Harrington Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002 http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: dorayme on 23 Mar 2010 12:22 In article <80rskiFbk4U1(a)mid.individual.net>, Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote: > On 2010-03-23 4:09 AM, dorayme wrote: > > In article <80nad5F21nU1(a)mid.individual.net>, > > Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org> wrote: > > >> John's utter unwillingness to listen to or acknowledge the advice that > >> he asks for raises the suspicion in my mind that he is just trying to > >> drive traffic to his web pages. > > > If your theory were right, you would need *yet another different > > one* to explain the general trend of this subscriber's posts. So > > try again Jeffrey and remember our wise old mate Bill, the good > > William of Ockham. > > I was not familiar with the nature of his other posts. This is my first > interaction with him. But from what you say, it seems that I am > attributing more guile to him than is merited. Yes, I guess. All efforts to reform my irritable character faced a serious challenge from nearly every post or thread from this guy. There are very few theists that I have real respect for. I took his posts to my regular classes at the Dale Carnegie School course of How to Win Friends and Influence People and even the teacher started throwing the blackboard rubber around in anger when he read them... -- dorayme
From: Tom Harrington on 23 Mar 2010 18:52
In article <jwolf6589-6B0BFC.18340023032010(a)nntp.charter.net>, John <jwolf6589(a)NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote: > Who is this poster? I am not seeing any of his posts. Are you in my > killfile? Why would he know? Do you let people modify your killfile for you? -- Tom "Tom" Harrington Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002 http://www.atomicbird.com/ |