From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1b086d817c07397f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-01 05:59:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The incredibly slimy ethics of Kent Paul Dolan Date: 1 May 2002 05:59:16 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0205010459.355183d3@posting.google.com> References: <27af1a1d6acaba932a22347a707a1d25.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> <0fc8b1beb99969b0162d857216df7023.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.244 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1020257956 7714 127.0.0.1 (1 May 2002 12:59:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 May 2002 12:59:16 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23332 Date: 2002-05-01T12:59:16+00:00 List-Id: 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.