In gnu.misc.discuss Alexander Terekhov <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > [...] >> I've got things to do, a life to get on with, and a discussion about words,
> You didn't sound like a guy having things to do, a life to get on with, > when you posted > http://www.groklaw.net/comment.php?mode=display&sid=20090922030639824&title=%20PJ%2C%20please%20stop%20feeding%20the%20troll&type=article&order=&hideanonymous=0&pid=0#c788848 Care to share your views on that, Alex? You've quoted it, in full, twice now, but without comment. That's a rather strange thing to do. > ----- > PJ, please stop feeding the troll > Authored by: AMackenzie on Tuesday, September 22 2009 @ 02:11 PM EDT > PJ, > Why do you keep quoting Alex Terekhov as though he were some sort of > authority? > (That's both a straight and a rhetorical question). > That poster is a plain troll and a spammer; intelligent, devious, > abusive, foul-mouthed, patronising, and allround thoroughly > objectionable. Together with several anonymous posters, he has > destroyed the gnu-misc-discuss mailing list. The archive of the > mailing list is at > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/ > Not so long ago, this list was vibrant and interesting, with > discussions over a broad range of subjects, and its loss is a > loss indeed. > Whilst the validity and bounds of the GPL are certainly on topic for > gnu-misc-discuss, these posters started foghorning it on the list, > perhaps two or three years ago. The plain nastiness caused bona-fide > posters to unsubscribe, and the list is now dead. Perhaps that was > the intention. Arguments that they are fouling up somebody else's > patch and trespassing on FSF resources are ignored, as are other > appeals to decency. > When the FSF created the mailing list it also created a usenet > gateway to it, but mistakenly decided not to make the corresponding > newsgroup moderated. Those were the early days of forums, and the > people setting them up naively assumed that other posters would be, > in the main, convivial and decent. It is through Usenet that these > posters post. > PJ, every time you mention Terekhov as though he were in some way > important, you'll be sending him a gratifying tingle, encouraging > him to carry on with his spamming and trolling. This is most > galling to those of us who have expended countless hours > neutralising his FUD and trying to save the gnu-misc-discuss > list. > Please, don't feed the trolls. Not even this one. > ----- > What happened that you've changed, Alan? No change. I feel the [email protected] was a list worth preserving. By contrast, there is nothing to be gained by a silly discussion about whether the use of free software is a "market". Sometimes, when you troll, you are playing more than just a harmless game - there can be consequences. > regards, > alexander. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
