2009/12/14 Bob Wood <[email protected]> > 2009/12/14 Steve Haywood <[email protected]>: > > > > ... Adrian has us by the sort and > > curlies, he knows this. > > > > [...] > > > But it's not a problem we can deal with. George or Bob should rell him > what > > the rules of the list are and give him a week to comply with them. > > > > I can't speak for George but I'm not sure what rule or rules it is > thought that Adrian is breaking. > > I say nothing of Adrian's outrageous views; he has a right to them and oddly I find myself agreeing with him more than usually on this question of road pricing, despite him driving a Mark I Golf Convertible which I'd personally price off the roads tomorrow if I could (regardless or not of whether it's adapted to run on gas).
But I thought that the idea of list protocol was to assist with the communication of ideas. Me, personally, I will not engage with him while he continues to 'reply' to a posting by a series of individual comments on each element of the posting, rather than write a consistent piece of prose. To my mind it's like trying to have a conversation with someone who's constantly interupting you, carping about small points rather than address the major thrust of an argument. However I concede that the rest of the list think this is acceptable. However, what they clearly do NOT think is acceptable is his conflating of several posts into a single one which he then proceeds to comment on point by point until no-one's got any idea of who's said what. Other people have commented on this too. Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
