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: fac41,c52c30d32b866eae X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,c52c30d32b866eae X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,2ea02452876a15e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: emery@grebyn.com (David Emery) Subject: Colin James III giving humans a bad name (was Re: Norman Cohen giving IBM a bad name) Date: 1996/03/20 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 143327114 references: <4id031$cf9@dayuc.dayton.saic.com> <4ik3j7$cl6@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> <314d98bf.562645731@news.dimensional.com> <4inf5n$klb@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> <314f6cf8.682571966@news.dimensional.com> organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel Date: 1996-03-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <314f6cf8.682571966@news.dimensional.com>, cjames@melchizedek.cec-services.com wrote: > ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen) posted with deletions: > > | In article <314d98bf.562645731@news.dimensional.com>, > | cjames@melchizedek.cec-services.com (The Right Reverend Colin James III) > | writes: > | > | |> ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen) posted with deletions: > | ... > | |> This has nothing to do with Eiffel, does it. > | > | In fact it does. The topic is a comparison of Eiffel's selective export > | with corresponding features in Ada. > | > | |> So stop distributing your inane thread to comp.lang.eiffel. > | > | Colin, I recognize your right to disagree with me about what is and is > | not of interest to readers of comp.lang.eiffel. I do not recognize your > | self-appointed role as gatekeeper of that newsgroup. > | > | When you come across an article that is not of interest to you, I think > | you will find it takes far less energy to skip over it than to continue > | posting your "Refrain from posting" messages, and certainly far less > | energy than you expended on Friday to determine my chain of management > | and send an amusing 4-page fax to a vice president four levels up the > | chain. (While I'm sure that my manager appreciated your advice that > | "Cohen averages about 1-article per workday, ie, apparently Cohen needs > | more work assignments and tighter supervision," he seems to have reached > | a different conclusion. Perhaps your fax alleging inappropriate posting > | to Usenet groups would have had more credibility if it had not included a > | copy of your own posting telling me to go to hell.) > | > | -- > | Norman H. Cohen ncohen@watson.ibm.com > > Thanks for your opinions, but the fact remains that your articles in > the thread "Real OO" have nothing whatsoever to do with Eiffel, > comp.lang.eiffel, or the official business of IBM (stock in which some > readers of this may own). > > Stop what you're doing Cohen because it makes you and IBM look bad. > > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > Colin James III, Principal Scientist cjames@cec-services.com > CEC Services, 2080 Kipling St, Lakewood, CO 80215-1502 USA > Voice: 303.231.9437; Facsimile: .231.9438; Data: .231.9434 > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Thanks for your drivelling, but the fact remains that your rants in most threads in which you paticipate have nothing whatsoever to do with Eiffel, Ada, software engineering, U.S. law or reality. Stop what you're doing James because it makes you and humanity look bad. Dave (so sue me, for real!) Emery