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From: Rowland McDonnell on 27 May 2010 18:23 Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: [snip unimaginative low-grade vicious personal abuse coupled with despicablly snide put-downs] Tim, tell me, in what way did you make the world better by succumbing to your morbid obsession with me, and so failing to stop yourself posting a gratuitous insult at me? You've done nothing but sneer at me and belittle me in your recent post, which is of course unwelcome behaviour in what's supposed to be a technical newsgroup. You need to understand the reasons for you behaving in that inappropriate fashion: you are ill, and you need help overcoming this morbid obsession. You should seek help to help you understand your own illness so you can learn how to stop yourself behaving like that in future. I think that everyone here is sick to death of your mental health problems which mean you can't help hurling personal abuse at me - but that is behaviour which is not welcome in what is supposed to be a purely technical newsgroup. Take my advice: see your doctor. At least get some pills to calm you down: you need /something/ to help you sort out your deranged mind. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: the_whinger_nation on 28 May 2010 00:09 On Thu, 27 May 2010 23:23:18 +0100, Rowland McDonnell wrote: > Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > > [snip unimaginative low-grade vicious personal abuse coupled with > despicablly snide put-downs] > > Tim, tell me, in what way did you make the world better by succumbing to > your morbid obsession with me, and so failing to stop yourself posting a > gratuitous insult at me? > > You've done nothing but sneer at me and belittle me in your recent post, > which is of course unwelcome behaviour in what's supposed to be a > technical newsgroup. > > You need to understand the reasons for you behaving in that > inappropriate fashion: you are ill, and you need help overcoming this > morbid obsession. > > You should seek help to help you understand your own illness so you can > learn how to stop yourself behaving like that in future. > > I think that everyone here is sick to death of your mental health > problems which mean you can't help hurling personal abuse at me - but > that is behaviour which is not welcome in what is supposed to be a > purely technical newsgroup. > > Take my advice: see your doctor. At least get some pills to calm you > down: you need /something/ to help you sort out your deranged mind. > > Rowland. Why don't you put him in your imaginary killfile? Then you could post imaginary replies to his killfilled messages. It would serve him right. -- "Why don't you go away and do something useful like turning yourself into compost with instructions to dig your well-rotted remains into a potato field?" Rowland McDonnell - Memoirs Of A Narchisstic Psychopath 08/25/2007
From: Jim on 28 May 2010 01:12 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > In case it's not; you are not any part of the target audience for RFCs. > > But you are wrong. Out of interest, what makes you think you're the target for RFCs? Heck, I'm a coder and work in IT and I don't consider -myself- to be the target, generally, of RFCs. Jim -- "Microsoft admitted its Vista operating system was a 'less good product' in what IT experts have described as the most ambitious understatement since the captain of the Titanic reported some slightly damp tablecloths." http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/
From: David Empson on 28 May 2010 03:28 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > In case it's not; you are not any part of the target audience for RFCs. > > > > But you are wrong. > > Out of interest, what makes you think you're the target for RFCs? Heck, > I'm a coder and work in IT and I don't consider -myself- to be the > target, generally, of RFCs. I on the other hand do think I'm the target of RFCs, because I'm implementing/porting a TCP/IP stack or specific protocols that run on top of it (for embedded systems). Most developers don't need to read most RFCs, because they have been implemented by the operating system vendor. You might need to read some of them if dealing with certain high level protocols directly, e.g. HTTP. I have no problem with the technical writing in any RFCs I've read, nor with the manner in which they cross reference each other or later versions supersede earlier versions. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Jim on 28 May 2010 03:35
On 2010-05-28, David Empson <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote: > > Most developers don't need to read most RFCs, because they have been > implemented by the operating system vendor. You might need to read some > of them if dealing with certain high level protocols directly, e.g. > HTTP. > > I have no problem with the technical writing in any RFCs I've read, nor > with the manner in which they cross reference each other or later > versions supersede earlier versions. As a coder and general Unix twiddler, I generally get more out of Googling "<foo> example" than reading the RFCs. I _can_ read them, sort of, but I'd prefer not to. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett |