On 18 May 2008, at 17:22, xponentrob wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charlie Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 9:59 AM > Subject: Re: culling the species > > >> He's not too rude, as you'd know if you'd bothered to pay attention. >> He tries extremely hard, but he has trouble with understanding the >> way >> e-mail programs quote, and manually quotes every post. If just one of >> us lived nearby and could pop round and demonstrate stuff, jon would >> find life much easier. > > I have my doubts about that. > The program he uses for email by default quotes more or less > correctly. > With all the help people have tried to give him over these last > months and > he still does not quote in any regard as a respectable netizen, I am > left > with little but suspicion. Specifically, that it is intentional.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." > > Having been immersed elsewhere in all manner of trollery and > disingenuity, I > have grown accustomed to recognizing the tricks that can be employed, > technical or memetic. Months of "I'm a clueless newbie, indulge me" > is > pretty old at this point. Seems a bit pointless since it just discourages me from trying to read his posts at all. > > I don't have a problem with what Jon has to say, after all it is > well within > the realm of what we have seen before on this list and comes as no > surprise. > But the claim that he cannot do a simple technical task makes me > want to say > "TitsOrGTFO" Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice Maru "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish." - Albert Einstein -- William T Goodall Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk Blog : http://radio.weblogs.com/0111221/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
