Re: The incredibly slimy ethics of Kent Paul Dolan

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

Actually I think the subject of this thread is inappropriate. I don't
regard KPD has having "slimy ethics", I really know very little about
the ethics of this chap. All I know is that I don't like his cross-posting
policy, so I put him in my kill file. I do note that he posted private
email, probably violating my copyright, but I regard that as merely
bad netiquette in this context, and he need not worry about hearing
from my copyright lawyer :-) If we tried to sue everyone who behaved
badly on the net, we would have no time for anything else! I also
find his posts to have little value tecnically, but again, that's
hardly a crime, and if that were grounds for putting someone in
a kill file, I fear my kill file would bump into whatever size
limits some hapless programmer has implemented there :-) :-)

And if we all killfiled everyone we disagreed with, conversation
on CLA would probably cease (maybe some would think that a good
think, who knows :-) It is certainly a pity that fewer and fewer
real Ada users and implementors take the effort to follow CLA.