Peter Lairo wrote:
> Gervase Markham wrote:
>
>>> my oppinion of you just took a 180 - you are obviously a slimeball.
>>>
>>
>> That was one of JTK's more polite, coherent posts. Please do not do
>> anything to disturb this tendency.
>>
>> I was hoping that more mature members of this conference wouldn't descend
>> to petty name calling, but it seems I was wrong.
>>
>> People, you have two choices:
>> 1) ignore/killfile JTK
>> 2) answer his points sanely and politely
>>
>> Option 3, shout at/abuse him, is not an option. I, for one, do not
>> want to
>> read petty shouting matches.
>
>
>
> I don't think treating this person "sanely and politely" or "ignoring"
> him are the solution.
>
> He is not "not bright" (Greg Miller), in fact he seems particularly
> "street wise" as far as appearing to be involved in critical debate.
> Where in reality his aim seems to be to disrupt, discredit, disturb,
> misinform, and even, in the end, damage the Mozilla project.
>
> I for one will not take this threat lightly. He is either a very
> disturbed person or a very destructive and unethical one. Either way he
> is attempting to damage this worthy project; and I will do what I can to
> stop him and inform those who might "wander" in to this group and take
> what he is saying as valid and truthful criticism (which it definetely
> is not).
>
> I think countering his posts on a factual level is probaby the best
> solution. But I suggest we develop a statement that we add to the end of
> each of our replies to him.
>
> For example:
>
> "Please Note: JTK is known to post misrepresentations of truth and of
> deliberatly disrupting this newsgroup. Please either ignore his posts or
> make sure you confirm the so-called "facts" he is posting."
>
>
>
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