Re: Who is Gee Maçon ?


"Gee Maçon" <_see.web.page_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:11bva7p9pvb2260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit
>
>
> Richard Henry wrote:
> >
> >Gee Maçon wrote...
> >>
> >> Richard Henry wrote:
> >>
> >> >So you [various accusations, roughly half of which are accurate]
> >
> >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?")?

Assume whatever you wish.

> "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.

Whether or not that is a misdirection depends on your point of view.

> 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.

OOH! Insult Microsoft. I'm so offended.

> "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.

Since you have redefined "plonk" to mean whatever is convenient to you, I
withdraw the comment.

> "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.

I don't think that response is on point to my comment.

> 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?

Then I hope they ignore me.

> 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

How many times have you posted this quotation?



.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Not worth shit
    ... John DoH is one of the trolls that infests this newsgroup. ... Troll posts ... Freedom of Speech vs. Freedom of Listening ... Once you have placed an author in your "killfile," his posts will no ...
    (uk.people.support.depression)
  • Re: Who is Gee =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ma=E7on?= ?
    ... I feel free to put *anything at all* in my posts. ... previous killfile, but I assure you that when I write *plonk* I ... configuration and I lose a few trolls out of the bozo bin. ... happened, but my Linux box allows me to set timed plonks, and on occasion ...
    (sci.electronics.design)
  • Re: Ebay says my SEGS coins are counterfeit Now I am NARU!
    ... to respect your opinion as your opinion, ... I believe announcing new entries into a killfile is important. ... Announcing a plonk can work to set a tone that others "here" can choose to ... I'm personally getting tired of reading someones posts, ...
    (rec.collecting.coins)
  • Re: everybody mention
    ... Killfile, that's the trick. ... who didn't encourage the trolls to stay (you hear me, ... then you'd be able to avoid their posts entirely. ... I think CJ and Rowland should just get a room. ...
    (uk.people.support.depression)
  • Re: Sampras > Federer
    ... He'll reproduce the same crappy posts ... much more concise format: "Don't Feed the Trolls" ... going to take his shit and will throw punches right back at him. ... when we killfile someone we don't even see their posts unless ...
    (rec.sport.tennis)