In the last year C. Smith has repeatedly annoyed many other members of
this list. Apart from (lack of) good manners, he has consistantly
demonstrated ignorance of basic IT and industry policy concepts,
regardless of how many times they have been proven to him with
objective data, with a determination that can only be explained by:
1) serious mental disability, or
2) deliberate trolling
This has created way too useless traffic and misinformation on this
list, with a lot of wasted effort from other members to at least limit
the damage on newcomers. Some examples of this are reported below.
There are more, but I have already wasted too much time on this person
to continue.
Now, as far as disabilities or trolling are concerned, yesterday this
person was so kind to inform us that (in spite of all the evidence
below):
"I also get upset ... by people constantly claiming I have some sort
of learning disability... I actually have a documented genius level
IQ. I'm in the 99th percentile".
This only leaves open the second option, which is far less
tolerable. Therefore, I request to the list maintainer that this
person is expelled by all OO.o lists. In case this doesn't happen, or
in the meantime, I hearthily suggest that other list members:
filter him out (with procmail on *nix systems
use this recipe, I have *already* loaded it):
:0:
* ^From: Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
/dev/null
bookmark this message in the list archives, so whenever some
newcomer risks to get lost after him you can immediately
provide a summary of why it wouldn't make sense to listen
On to the proofs now.
1) We have just heard that:
> Do you think anyone could read a computer file from 50 years ago today?
> Not without some *very* specialized tools - IE hardware *and* software.
note the complete confusion. This by itself is enough to disqualify
him, as he doesn't grasp that:
digital data can and are continuously copied to new supports as
old HW disappears (5" floppies to today's floppies to CDs to DVD
to HD-DVD or Blu Ray to...)
files are not hardware, nor are formats
2) but immediately after, in the same thread, he says that the only format he'd
trust to store information forever is paper... but going to a
library "It's kinda pointless [with the Internet at home]", that is
now that he has *digital* data *always* available.
3) From the archives, a proof that his files and usage of office
suites have always been so elementary to not trust him on anything
related to data formats or ownership (not to mention marketing):
>Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: MS file compatibility
>From: Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 09:50:26 -0400
>To: [email protected]
>I really fail to understand how people *on this list* can continue to
>believe that file formats are a way to lock people in... File formats
>are *not* what keep MSO on top. If every other office program on
>*EARTH* uses them, how could it be?
4) So long, freedom of speech and data ownership:
>Subject: [discuss] Re:
>From: Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 14:29:58 -0400
>To: [email protected]
>
>>* I must be guaranteed if I want so that my files will be always
>> *completely* mine. Even if I switch SW every other week, from
>> proprietary to OSS and back
>Why *must* you be guaranteed that? What constitution or religious
>document guarantees you such an audacious right? If you want to be
>guarnteed sch unlimited access (that has *never* been available to
>*anyone* before), then print them out. [because] there is not any way
>of knowing what software will exist in 5 years.
Also note the rambling [13 months ago] on printing as the only way to
go. Even then, it had already been proven as ridiculous and naive by
all other members. If this is not trolling...
5) rigorous research...
>Subject: [discuss] OASIS in AbiWord, was: New OOo Format
>From: Marco Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:37:07 +0200 (CEST)
>To: [email protected]
>> Chad Smith wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > We've been explaining time and again that AbiWord does NOT
>> > use the OO.o format,
>> Do your homework. AbiWord *DOES* support OOo format.
>> http://www.abisource.com/tour/
>>
>> <quote>
>>
>> Interoperability
>...Speaking of homework, once more you didn't bother to check the
> facts before opening your mouth and embarass yourself. From
> http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/FaqOtherFormatsSupported
>
>"Supporting OASIS / XML Format: In this <email> the question was asked
>whether AbiWord would support the standard XML format for office documents"
>
>That <email> is from the thread *I* started 15 months ago on the abiword
> developers list to raise this very issue.
This (plus all the useless traffic and the time it forced everybody to
waste in this month alone) is enough for me to request he is
unsubscribed, and surely to NOT read one single message from him
anymore (as I already started to do one hour ago). I strongly invite
all other members to do the same until he's unsubscribed, it would
still be a terrible waste of bandwidth to receive all the attempt to
make him reason.
'night now.
Marco
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