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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public From: ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) Subject: Re: Your english sucks, mine is better. Date: 1997/11/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 292164651 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> Organization: AT&T Research, Florham Park, NJ Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-11-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , wrote: > No you can't. You are in their control and not the other way around. > You are a reactionary to things people post perhaps to get a particular > effect. A lot of the posts in newsgroups are simply lies and marketing > tactics (lies again). Not everyone feels that this medium requires > honesty, integrity, ethics etc. The internet on one hand is a sesspool. You're quite right -- writings will not prove someone's honesty by themselves. It's like black-box software testing -- it can never prove the absence of bugs. On the other hand, black-box software testing can often reveal the presence of bugs, and reading what people have written can often reveal that there would be no point even in interviewing them if they were to come looking for a job. -- --Andrew Koenig ark@research.att.com http://www.research.att.com/info/ark