David and all, I did not make a false accusation as Aljendro did towards myself and indirectly towards Mark Langston. Such stupidity should indeed be discouraged in as much as possible. It is such insane postings and thought processes as Aljandero has continuously or at least fairly frequently engaged in, that denigrate and divert meaningful disagreement even strong disagreement, such as I put forward with respect to Nii... David Keegel wrote: > Alejandro Pisanty wrote: > ] even if coming from a widely discredited source of ad-hominem bile and > ] venom, > ] slander almost always deserves a dementi, especially if based on tenuous > ] grounds > ] gathered in a limited circumstance. > > That word "almost" is very important. > > I wouldn't have seen the trash in question, if Alejandro hadn't repeated > it. I'm sure there are a number of others on this list who filter messages > from people like Jeff. > > Perhaps we could come up with a convention for people to tag messages > which are just responses to things Jeff has said, so that people who > are filtering out Jeff's trash can also filter out responses to it. > > Obviously it would be much better if no one responded to idiotic posts > from known morons (treating them as "beneath contempt"). But I can't > see that happening any time soon, so I'm trying to think of ways we can > contain the stupidity and the counter-stupidity (which is almost as bad). > > PS: Yes I know that meta-stupidity like this is not much better than > counter-stupidity in the short term (in the sense that it also diverts > focus from real issues, onto disruptive activity). But if you want > this list to be useful, you need to have some way to deal with this > sort of thing at some stage (before everyone unsubscribes). > __________________________________________________________________________ > David Keegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/ > Cybersource P/L: Unix Systems Administration and TCP/IP network management > > --- > You are currently subscribed to ncdnhc-discuss as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman INEGroup (Over 95k members strong!) CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng. Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC. E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact Number: 972-447-1894 Address: 5 East Kirkwood Blvd. Grapevine Texas 75208
