Re: ROBERT DEWER, Chill out...

[Thornton <thornton@AVICOM.NET>]

Robert,
There's no doubt you're highly educated & intelligent in regards to the
topics discussed on this newsgroups, but I second the motion that you're
also quite rude.

Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> <<It's nothing you did.  It's Professor Dewar's attitude.  It seems that
> he considers this newsgroup to be his personal fiefdom and if someone
> does something that gets in his way, his habit is to send them rude,
> pompous e-mails (please note the plural). >>
>
> Just so people know, I have indeed been sending emails to people who have
> almost certainly been cross-posting on the troll posts to CLA without
> realizing it. 99% of the time I get a polite reply saying something
> like "oops, sorry, I did not realize this was cross-posted", but I
> guess Charles is in the 1% (he also did not realize he was cross-posting,
> but takes the attitude that he is entitled to, which is of course true,
> anyone can say anything).
>
> Actually I am quite surprised that so many people react positively to
> such messages, and it definitely helps keep accidental noise down. You
> can't tell people what do do, and you will always get some noisy minority
> who wlil post no matter what, but it helps quite a bit if the reasonable
> majority takes a little bit more care not to accidentally post.
>
> These cross-posted trolls come and go of course, but it sure seems like
> CLA has been beset with them recently, and once again the noise-to-signal
> ratio is getting a bit high.
>
> (I guess Charles is a bit frustrated, he threatened to complain to me
> to my employers at Ada Core Technologies :-) :-)
>
> Well at least we get some signal, I am happy to finally get at least
> ONE reply (from Stephe) on how to handle that interesting error message
>
> <<When you point out to this arrogant, conceited pillock that you don't
> appreciate unsolicited e-mails and will happily take the argument
> further, he then sends another stream of personal insults, finishing
> with an announcement that he has put you on his mailer rejection list.>>
>
> P.S. If anyone wants to know how to get on my mailer rejection list, it's
> an easy algorithm (in fact I could probably automate it!) If I get a message
> with obsenities or rude language, then you go on the list. It is not that
> this offends me, it is just that I take this as a signal that the
> probability of further intelligent discussion has dropped to zero :-)
>
> An entertaining thread title (should be DEWAR of course, but I don't
> want to disturb those who want to use their thread following mailers
> to follow this thread :-)

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