* hru...@gmail.com <hru...@gmail.com> [2013-10-07 08:36:04 +0000]: > dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: > > > > Layers of hurt being thrown around. Why? > > This is a legitim question. > > Since I am here, I think I received twice an Email from you: I > remember you as a polite person. But I did read a little of what > people write about you arround. > > Some weeks ago a question of me here produced unfortunately too much > traffic. I was critical to the optimism in Tridgelll doctoral > thesis, about the rsync algorithm, about new programming technics > that seem to allow the use of hash values as a unique key. If the > question was a little off-topic, then it was not anymore as some > people here felt attacked by my critic. I was continously exposed > to insult and defamation. I continously tried to keep the discussion > objective, without much success. I asked me the very same question > you ask, I ask me it till now. And of course I tried to find an answer. > And the answer of Robert Garrett throw new questions: Because people > are idiots? Then we all are idiots and cannot compain. Or only people > that do usefull things can complain and other do not deserve respect? > > Rodrigo. >
In fairness, you were repeating yourself a great deal and filling up our inboxes with the same statements. It went on for days and became tiresome. That was the main complaint, not the mathematical arguments you were put to the list.
