> From: JOHN MACKEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:46:28 -0600
> Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] snide remarks
>
> Coordination has become a joke in certain areas, because the coordination
> representatives are not professional or following decent rules of conduct.
[snip]
Gee. Tony's intent and meaning sailed right over the top of your head,
didn't it? Are you normally this oblivious, or is this a special case?
Am I justified in calling your powers of observation into question?
If I am, is a public forum the proper place to do so?
Let's return to the events that led to Mr. King's ire, shall we?
A new repeater builder asked how to invert the sense of a squelch
signal, and one of the august (yes, "august" is properly capitalized.
Look it up) members of this mailing list jumped on him with all four
feet. Yes, I just did imply that the jumper is an animal; allow me to
make it explicit by calling him a jackass. For the wasted bandwidth, he
could have answered the question two or three ways; instead, he chose to
assuage his own feelings of inferiority by lording it over someone he
saw as lower on the totem pole. Was that justified?
Another member of this list attempted to dissuade a would-be repeater
ownder from erecting another 10 meter repeater. In the course of that
discussion, someone mentioned coordination -- and another august member
of this list loosed a highly unprofessional broadside at someone that
was not present to defend himself. You yourself have continued to beat
the place in the road where there used to be a greasy spot where a dead
horse used to lay, hijacking Mr. King's thread in order to do so. What
is your justification in doing so?
Now allow me to add one of my own.
A new member posted in HTML. After a request that he quit doing so, he
did. He left Micro$oft's damnedable "smart quotes" enabled, though, and
thoroughly scrambled the presentation in my xterm window on my Linux
computer. When I asked him to turn them off, yet another august member
of this list set up a straw man and thoroughly demolished it, implying
as he did so that I was less than capable if I could not parse meaning
from within HTML coding. I didn't think he needed to be set straight in
public, so I sent him a private E-mail informing him that his bogus
argument was, in point of fact, bogus. See, Micro$lop used control
characters for their damnedable "smart quotes", and terminals -- such as
xterm, the "X Terminal" -- use control characters to, well, control the
behavior of the terminal. They ring the bell, or turn off scroll, or
reposition the cursor, or clear the viewing window, or any number of
other things. That's why they're called "control characters" and why
the key used to create them is called the "control key". Apparently,
instead of correcting him in private I should have exposed his ignorance
in public and held him to account for it. Mea culpa. I have corrected
my error here.
Mr. Mackey, do you care to address even *one* of these three examples
of what Mr. King is inveighing against, or do you merely wish to continue
to beat the spot where a dead horse used to lie? Your call, sir.
de kg7yy
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