Prev: Maximal Ideals
Next: Climate skeptics are looking p-r-e-t-t-y damn stupid right now
From: Mark Murray on 1 Aug 2010 10:32
On 01/08/2010 14:23, rossum wrote:
> And much appreciated it is too. Thank you James for your
> consideration.

Yes, indeed. Thank you, James.

M
--
Mark "No Nickname" Murray
Notable nebbish, extreme generalist.
From: JSH on 1 Aug 2010 11:28
On Jul 31, 9:53 pm, bacle <h...(a)here.com> wrote:
> However brilliant you think you are,
>   many here are amusing themselves at your
>   expense, i.e., they are laughing _at you_,
>   and not _with you_.

Replies like this one can help people understand why I don't have an
issue with people not wanting to read my posts as hopefully if they
just avoid me I'll see less nastiness.

>     Maybe when your gigantic (and
>   unfounded) ego let's you see this, you will
>   notice.
>
>    Have some self-respect and stop being the
>   unwitting sci.math jester.

And things are MUCH better now. Years ago the sci.math newsgroup
would routinely erupt into some rather extreme and obscene nastiness,
and posters prided themselves on their ability to drive others off of
Usenet.

So they prided their ability to use their free speech to limit the
speech of others by insulting them so brutally that those people would
choose to stop posting to stop the barrage of verbal attacks.

And they could. As time has gone by though and society has evolved,
I'm guessing that people are less likely to quit just because they go
into shock when a post gets dedicated viciousness in reply.

Oh, when the request was made for me to distinguish threads I started
in some way, at first I was a little bit insulted but the more I
thought about it, the more I liked it, so my invention of the "JSH" in
front made sense and it has worked well through the years.

Oddly enough though, some of the nastier obsessive repliers now make a
point of stripping it off in THEIR replies which you can see in this
thread!

It's a weird, wacky Usenet world...


James Harris
From: Mark Murray on 1 Aug 2010 14:18
On 01/08/2010 16:28, JSH wrote:
> And things are MUCH better now. Years ago the sci.math newsgroup
> would routinely erupt into some rather extreme and obscene nastiness,
> and posters prided themselves on their ability to drive others off of
> Usenet.

I agree. Gratuitous obscenity is not a way to conduct a debate, or
even an argument.

> So they prided their ability to use their free speech to limit the
> speech of others by insulting them so brutally that those people would
> choose to stop posting to stop the barrage of verbal attacks.
>
> And they could. As time has gone by though and society has evolved,
> I'm guessing that people are less likely to quit just because they go
> into shock when a post gets dedicated viciousness in reply.

The open nature of Usenet has rather degenerated into this "anything
goes" flaming. "Endless September" is here to stay, and Usenet is
dying a slow death as a result. Much real work gets done in blogs
and/or moderated fora.

> Oh, when the request was made for me to distinguish threads I started
> in some way, at first I was a little bit insulted but the more I
> thought about it, the more I liked it, so my invention of the "JSH" in
> front made sense and it has worked well through the years.

Yeah. Thanks (again) for doing that.

> Oddly enough though, some of the nastier obsessive repliers now make a
> point of stripping it off in THEIR replies which you can see in this
> thread!

There is at least one news-browser/mailer that does that automatically
(I'm trying to remember which one it is (Eudora? Pegasus?)) in a
slightly lame attempt to clean up strings of

Re: Re: Fwd: Re: <Original Subject>

.... that used to accumulate with earlier (dumb) mailers. It has
a regex that is supposed to get rid off all that garbage in any
conceivable language, but also messes with subject lines that you
DON'T want "cleaned".

While I think that poster's articles are vile noise, I'm not
convinced that he removes the "JSH" manually. He could just be
using a lame mailer.

> It's a weird, wacky Usenet world...

Ayup!

M
--
Mark "No Nickname" Murray
Notable nebbish, extreme generalist.
From: Sherman Forte on 1 Aug 2010 23:35

"JSH" <jstevh(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:2ead0d95-886d-4557-a8cc-db1ee70abdc7(a)k8g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
On Jul 31, 9:53 pm, bacle <h...(a)here.com> wrote:
> However brilliant you think you are,
> many here are amusing themselves at your
> expense, i.e., they are laughing _at you_,
> and not _with you_.

<thanks for no math this time, you really suck so badly at it>

James Harris


From: bacle on 2 Aug 2010 12:47
> On Jul 31, 9:53 pm, bacle <h...(a)here.com> wrote:
> > However brilliant you think you are,
> >   many here are amusing themselves at your
> >   expense, i.e., they are laughing _at you_,
> >   and not _with you_.
>
> Replies like this one can help people understand why
> I don't have an
> issue with people not wanting to read my posts as
> hopefully if they
> just avoid me I'll see less nastiness.

Typical hypocrisy. You have trashed and abused
everyone here, and now you believe you have the
authority to decry others' nastiness.

I goes like this: you dish it out and you'll
get it back.

And you have dished it out plenty.

>
> >     Maybe when your gigantic (and
> >   unfounded) ego let's you see this, you will
> >   notice.
> >
> >    Have some self-respect and stop being the
> >   unwitting sci.math jester.
>
> And things are MUCH better now. Years ago the
> sci.math newsgroup
> would routinely erupt into some rather extreme and
> obscene nastiness,
> and posters prided themselves on their ability to
> drive others off of
> Usenet.

You, OTOH, have always been polite, right.?
>
> So they prided their ability to use their free speech
> to limit the
> speech of others by insulting them so brutally that
> those people would
> choose to stop posting to stop the barrage of verbal
> attacks.

No. We want to get rid of buffoons who are here
just to stroke their ego, and not to do math. And
you fit that category perfectly.
>
> And they could. As time has gone by though and
> society has evolved,
> I'm guessing that people are less likely to quit just
> because they go
> into shock when a post gets dedicated viciousness in
> reply.

Another unfounded guess. Your amateur sociology
is as unfounded as your amateur math. Your "skills"
do not extend beyond blind speculation.
>
> Oh, when the request was made for me to distinguish
> threads I started
> in some way, at first I was a little bit insulted but
> the more I
> thought about it, the more I liked it, so my
> invention of the "JSH" in
> front made sense and it has worked well through the
> years.

IOW, to stroke your ego.
>
> Oddly enough though, some of the nastier obsessive
> repliers now make a
> point of stripping it off in THEIR replies which you
> can see in this
> thread!
>
> It's a weird, wacky Usenet world...
>
> where
> James Harris

Is the biggest loser.
First  |  Prev  |  Next  |  Last
Pages: 1 2 3
Prev: Maximal Ideals
Next: Climate skeptics are looking p-r-e-t-t-y damn stupid right now