Mr. Grizzard- So now I ask YOU, are you "normally this oblivious, or is this a special case"? As you state below, the thread evolved into discussing coordination.
The squelch sense issue was *WELL* addressed in recent threads here. It is also covered on several web sites & in very, very basic transistor logic handbooks. Why do you propose beating that dead horse, Mr. Grizzard? ------ Original Message ------ Received: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 08:10:03 AM CST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] snide remarks > > > 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 > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Repeater-Builder/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
