After people's comments about the number of postings I've made over the past week, I've decided to condense the following into one e-mail to answer some people's points.
For a start I'd like to apologise to all the sensible members of the list for my somewhat over-anxious posting on the current debates. I realise now that a lot of people I was replying to were not reading what I was putting and merely flaming so I shouldn't have bothered replying to them. I shall attempt to not make this mistake again. My only defence is that I was trying to explain misunderstandings and support my arguments with facts rather than random opinions and shouting. I realise that the real members of the list who read the posts were hearing my arguments a repeated number of times, and the flamers I was attempting to get through to weren't. With that said, I'll now answer a few things, and keep the irrelavent parts and flamer answers to a minimum. Speaking of which: --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Govind, H. (Himal)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't seem to get it in that thick skull of yours that the rest of us > are getting tired of your petty topics of discussion and your comments, > especially when they revolve around trivial issues. Your discussion points > lack any foundation, credibility and is structured in an inarticulated > fashion in most list members' opinions. So do us a favour and stop flaming > our mailboxes with your tripe. If you think that scoring goals, winning games and tactics are "petty" and "trivial", good for you. I however do not. All my arguments were backed up by actual evidence and in no way badly written, and I don't feel you can quote most members opinions for them. And by the way, flaming is when you insult someone without making reference to their arguments, i.e. what you've just done. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Alan Gilbertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >BTW, Terry, I also began with some sympathy for Ed. While I happened to > disagree with his (her?) early arguments, I respected his right to > express his opinions and to back them up. I lost that sympathy when he > ignored the numerous people who asked him to rein it in over the past few days. Yes, I'm a him. Clever subject line you used there too, pretty funny. The reasons I didn't stop when asked (told) to were mainly the number of replies I was getting which completely misinterpreted my points, which I thought I should clarify, and that the main people telling me to stop were just of the "shut up, you're stupid" type who couldn't come up with anything to argue against me. However I realise talking to them is pointless so I'll try not to repeat anything from now on. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Jameson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ed's obsessive worrying at the formation echoes a long, long debate > which happened before he joined the list and was equally boring. > It's annoying some of us - me included - but I don't think that's a > reason to abuse him or suggest that he's some kind of Trojan Scouse > trying to disrupt the list. I like his point about corners, and > believe he's trying to get some other topic up for discussion, so > let's show some generosity of spirit and lay off a bit here. And Ed, > please take the hint and drop a subject once it's been round the block. Thanks for the support Pete (apart from the obsessive bit!), and yes I was just suggesting some other topics to discuss as it seemed interesting that we switched to that system and then back again all of a sudden. I'll make sure to drop the subjects once I've said all there is to say once. I'd also like to thank Lim Boon Wee for his comments. I realise now the people I'm usually repeating myself to aren't even bothering to read them anyway, so I'll quit that to save all the sensible members the pain of seeing the repitition. I hope this clears up my position. As a last point I'd like to say DAMN YAHOO GROUPS, damn them all to hell!!! The stupid thing decided that even though I'd told it I wanted to stay signed in AND put my password in once today, it'd ask me again after I wrote out the first version of this huge e-mail and proceed to just delete the whole thing and take me to My Groups!!! Beware the evil of Yahoo Groups and write your long posts in Wordpad. :-) Ed Subscription info WWW http://red11.org/list Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] = subscribe to the list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] = unsubscribe from the list. Post message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
