I've just made an odd discovery -- one of the lesser lights (but still a highly technoid participant) on what could be my most important usenet group (other than this one) turns out to know what I mean and why I ask my questions, better than I do.
He is quite sure I ask deliberately obscurantist questions in order to make trouble. He boasts of his offended (and calculatedly offensive) replies to a recent question -- rousing one of the very few flame wars I have seen in that group, if not the only one. (Others have flamed him; I've been off usenet for days, and have only discovered all this now.) I could of course plonk him, and may have to. But he doesn't treat all posters that way, only some, chosen I have no idea how. To others he does sometimes return answers I may want to see. Would it be feasible to plonk his posts if and only if they are either replies to mine, or comments in threads I start? Or would I end up spending weeks trying to construct such a filter, and failing in the end anyway? He does have an odd-looking name -- odd in the sense that it seems (to me, anyway) to fall etymologically between two languages, as if some forbear had adapted it from one to the other -- but I'm sure to forget *why* I've started finding that name noticeable ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
