Re: Who is Gee Maçon ?


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Richard Henry wrote:
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>Gee Maçon wrote...
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>> Richard Henry wrote:
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>> >So you [various accusations, roughly half of which are accurate]
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>Which are inaccurate?

May I assume that if I answer that you will answer the question
I asked ("Have you ever considered posting something related to
electronics design?")?

"So you feel free to misdirect followups to alt.dev.null
(it's good for us),"

Accurate on both counts. Well, almost; replace "misdirect" with
"direct". "Misdirect" assumes that it's wrong, which is begging
the question.

I feel free to put *anything at all* in my posts. You should also
feel free free to put anything at all in your posts. I haven't
noticed you asking me to control what you do, and I never asked you
to control what I do. This freedom comes with a price; others are
free to reply any way that they choose, including personal attacks
and good old fashioned ignoring, with or without automated help.

It *is* good for you. Being responsible for your own actions is
good for you. Letting other people control you is bad for you.
You have freely chosen to use a brain-dead buggy pile-of-crap
newsreader that blindly sends your posts to wherever the post
you replied to went. Don't blame me for your bad decisions.

"false-plonk (don't deny it)"

I deny it. There are occasions when I re-install the software to
my Windows box, and a couple of times I have had to go back to a
previous killfile, but I assure you that when I write *plonk* I
set my killfile at that moment, and from then on I no longer see
any posts from that person. I also send a note to myself to update
my Linux and QNX boxes. It is a common conceit among trolls and
flamers to think that they are so very important that nobody could
possibly decide to ignore them. Check Google and you will see that
I do ignore those who I plonk (I have no choice; I can't see what
they post) with an occasional but rare case where Windows hoses my
configuration and I lose a few trolls out of the bozo bin.

By the way, do you have a source for your unwarranted assumption that
all plonks must be permanent? Who told you that? My windows box has
a fairly simple killfile - just regular expressions on body and/or
headers that trigger making the post never display as if it never
happened, but my Linux box allows me to set timed plonks, and on occasion
I set a one year expiration. Are those plonks somehow false? Who says
so? Also, I can and do use a scoring system on my Linux box rather than
a straight killfile, which doesn't fit your artificial true/false binary
classification scheme.

"and call people trolls"

Accurate. Accurate in the sense that I call some people trolls
and accurate in the sense that some people really are trolls.

"...but you can't take it when you get it back?"

Inaccurate. I killfile those who bore me, and reserve that right to
killfile for any other reason or for no reason at all, but I have
no complaints at all if someone killfiles me for whatever reason.

There. Honest answers to your questions. Now back to my question;
Have you ever considered posting something related to electronics
design? As fascinating as the contents of my killfile seem to be
to you, have you considered the possibility that few others share
your interest?

My unsolicited advice to you (which you are, of course, free to
ignore) is to take care that you don't become the person described
in the following quote:

"Usenet being what it is, if you participate in newsgroups
at all over a period if time you have the possibility of
attracting your own personal lunatic, who considers any
disagreement a personal affront, and considers it their
duty and obligation to "expose" the person they fixate on.
It's kind of pathetic, but they can't quite seem to figure
out why no one else sees their actions as heroic."
-Richard Ward

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