Re: blacklist

[Grant Griffin <grant.griffin@iowegian.com>]

E. Robert Tisdale wrote:
> 
> The blacklist database
> 
>         http://www.netwood.net/~edwin/comp/dsp/blacklist.html
> 
> contains the names of people prone to posting personal attacks
> and libelous remarks, using abusive or threatening rhetoric or
> deceiving and manipulating subscribers to the comp.dsp newsgroup.
> That is to say -- people prone to flaming, spamming and trolling.
> 
> New subscribers and other people who read comp.dsp infrequently
> are encouraged to consult the blacklist database before
> responding
> to any posting in the comp.dsp newsgroup.  Responding to anyone
> on the blacklist could have very unpleasant consequences.
> 
> E. Robert Tisdale <edwin@netwood.net>

To those of you not in comp.dsp:

I've done a little research recently which shows that Mr. E. Robert
Tisdale has been involved in your newsgroup.  Mr. Tisdale has appointed
himself Policeman of the comp.dsp newsgroup by creating this blacklist. 
No one in comp.dsp has asked for Mr. Tisdale's blacklist, and no one has
endorsed it.  As with all Usenet Policemen, Mr. Tisdale has appointed
himself, and his opinions are strictly his own.

Please be aware that Mr. Tisdale is VERY SENSITIVE.  If you wish to
reply to any of his questions, please phrase your replies VERY
DELICATELY so you won't hurt his tender feelings.  The safest thing to
do, of course, is just to ignore him entirely; that's the only sure way
to prevent him from appointing himself Policeman of _your_ newsgroup by
creating another blacklist.

Alternatively, you could just have fun with it as we do in comp.dsp, and
ridicule Mr. Tisdale for thinking that he is in charge of Usenet, its
newsgroups, or even his own potty schedule.  I, personally, have taken
this approach, as have most of the other regular contributors to
comp.dsp.  In comp.dsp, we make fun of him for his strange love of Joe
McCarthy-style totalitarianism, his naive misconception of how Usenet
really works, his glaring lack of knowledge and experience in the topics
he expounds upon, his wooden prose, and his pathological absence of a
sense of humor.  If you observe any of these qualities as he involves
himself in _your_ newsgroup, you'll know just what to do. ;-) 

If you'd like to learn more about Mr. Tisdale's antics in comp.dsp
and/or the group's reaction to them, here is a search URL from
AltaVista:


<http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=news&q=%22robert+tisdale%22&search=Search>

Sorry to bother you with this.

best regards,

=g2
Self-Appointed Chairman of Mr. Tisdale's Blacklist
(My views are mine alone and don't necessarily represent those of other
Blacklistee's)
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Grant R. Griffin                           grant.griffin@iowegian.com
Iowegian International Corporation	      http://www.iowegian.com
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