Unless you consider that maybe he had accidently used a valuable password for his list registration (without reading the TOS) and overreacted. I've had to support users who did just that :)
William On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Michael Thompson wrote: > William Sutton wrote: > > OK, I succumbed in a moment (or two or three) of weakness and joined the > > crowd during the flamefest. I'll work on being more genteel :) > > I'm not really sure thats necessary, I've never seen a flame fest start > over a simple question, many (including me) were offended by the users > obvious troll. (Ok, maybe a few flame fests *have* started, but in > response to a valid question. That jerks message was not a question, > but an attack.) > > > Now then, I believe the gentleman from Calgary wasn't trolling to start > > trouble. I believe he got his monthly reminder, probably for the first > > time, and panicked. It probably wasn't the best or brightest reaction > > he's had in a while, but I'd bet my slices of pizza at the next meeting > > that we've all had a similar reaction at one time or other. > > I have to disagree, he went out of his way to insult the list > maintainers, in all caps, and then continued his troll with a few extra > messages just for good measure. > > > Now, back to the poking. We didn't give our acquaintance from Calgary a > > poke. We singed his back side and slammed the door on it for good > > measure. Argue it how you like, the evidence is on the list archives, and > > we flamed him. Admittedly, from a RTFM POV, his question looked > > ridiculously stupid, and we ridiculed him. > > Lets see, here are some of the questions from his message, lets try to > find something that is NOT a troll: > > WHAT ARE YOU PEOPLE THINKING? -- Nope, thats not it... > > WHERE DO YOU KEEP YOUR BRAINS ANYWAY? -- Definitely not it... > > Who in Hell needs Microsoft's security holes when we have lists that do > this? -- I could be mistaken, but this is also a *statement* intended > to be insulting. > > > Jon is right. Those of us who flamed should be ashamed...and should do > > better. > > I dont recall anyone who joined in on the "Canadian Beating" flaming > people in the past for actual questions. Maybe a little poke to get the > user thinking, but never with a particularly sharp object. The only > thing I'm ashamed of is that I let that moron get to me. > > I dont think you or anyone else should be ashamed, but feel free to > flame me if you dont. ;) > > $.02 > > --mike > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
