Re: Xah's edu corner: the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet

2005-11-02 Thread Peter Hansen
Mike Meyer wrote: Xah Leh is incompetent, but apparently well-intentioned. In your view is that (well-intentioned) an established fact at this point? I was still waiting for conclusive evidence. So far the evidence appears rather strongly in favour of a verdict of true trollism, which is

Re: Xah's edu corner: the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet

2005-11-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Something I don't quite understand, if people think it is troll, just ignore it. What I see is that people are feeding it by commenting about either him or his post. I saw a number of threads ended up that way(like the rather long one about Microsoft). And if anyone wants to take the

Re: Xah's edu corner: the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet

2005-11-02 Thread Mike Meyer
Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike Meyer wrote: Xah Leh is incompetent, but apparently well-intentioned. In your view is that (well-intentioned) an established fact at this point? I was still waiting for conclusive evidence. No, it's not an established fact, which is why I said

Re: Xah's edu corner: the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet

2005-11-02 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... Something I don't quite understand, if people think it is troll, just ignore it. What I see is that people are feeding it by commenting about either him or his post. I saw a number of threads ended up that way(like the rather long one

Re: Xah's edu corner: the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet

2005-11-02 Thread Fredrik Lundh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And if anyone wants to take the responsibiblity to warn the general public that it is troll so innocent readers may not be tempted into one, at least do it privately huh? /F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Xah's edu corner: the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet

2005-11-02 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Fredrik Lundh napisał(a): And if anyone wants to take the responsibiblity to warn the general public that it is troll so innocent readers may not be tempted into one, at least do it privately huh? Don't fed the troll, don't give him any public audience. Easy. -- Jarek Zgoda

Re: Xah's edu corner: the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet

2005-11-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I should not response here but just to show what would be the consequence. If you send me a private mail instead of posting here, there would be two less post for this thread, and if I didn't post, it would be three less. That is, only response privately to people responding to a troll would

Re: Xah's edu corner: the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet

2005-11-02 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Jarek Zgoda wrote: And if anyone wants to take the responsibiblity to warn the general public that it is troll so innocent readers may not be tempted into one, at least do it privately huh? Don't fed the troll, don't give him any public audience. Easy. by sending private mail to anyone who

Re: Xah's edu corner: the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet

2005-11-02 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Fredrik Lundh napisał(a): And if anyone wants to take the responsibiblity to warn the general public that it is troll so innocent readers may not be tempted into one, at least do it privately huh? Don't fed the troll, don't give him any public audience. Easy. by sending private mail to

Re: Xah's edu corner: the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet

2005-11-02 Thread Brandon K
So just stop talking. It's funny that you guys are having a conversations about not responding to a guys post. First of all, freedom of speech, blah blah, who cares, just let him alone. But certainly don't go on his post, reply, telling people not to reply. That's like saying EVEN THOUGH

Xah's edu corner: the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet

2005-11-01 Thread Xah Lee
the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet Xah Lee, 20051101 There's a bunch of confusions about the display of non-ascii characters such as the bullet •. These confusions are justifiable, because the underlying stuff is technology, computing technologies, are in a laymen sense, extremely

Re: Xah's edu corner: the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet

2005-11-01 Thread Steve Holden
[New readers: Please ignore the writings of this unbalanced individual, who is well-known for posting inappropriate and inflammatory material on many different newsgroups and mailing lists]. Xah Lee wrote: the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet Xah Lee, 20051101 There's a bunch

Re: Xah's edu corner: the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet

2005-11-01 Thread svenn . are
Interesting opinions this man has, I must say. A Sith of Computing he may be? -- Svenn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Xah's edu corner: the Journey of Foreign Characters thru Internet

2005-11-01 Thread Mike Meyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Interesting opinions this man has, I must say. A Sith of Computing he may be? No. Sith are competent but evil. Xah Leh is incompetent, but apparently well-intentioned. Some of his opinions are correct, but that appears to be more by accident than anything else, and