Re: Responding to trollish postings.

2005-01-26 Thread Peter Hansen
John Machin wrote: Indeed. Let's just nominate XL to the "Full Canvas Jacket" website (http://www.ratbags.com/ranters/) and move on. I'm not sure how reliable that site could be. After all, it contains no articles with the words "autocoding", "threeseas", or "rue" (other than as the French "street

Re: Responding to trollish postings.

2005-01-26 Thread John Machin
Terry Reedy wrote: > > No offense taken. My personal strategy is to read only as much of trollish > threads as I find interesting or somehow instructive, almost never respond, > and then ignore the rest. I also mostly ignore discussions about such > threads. > Indeed. Let's just nominate XL to

Responding to trollish postings.

2005-01-26 Thread Terry Reedy
[New subject line] In response to my response to a trollish posting... > There isn't any doubt that these 'tutorials' are generally unwelcome and > unhelpful. Numerous people have kindly taken the time to flag some of the > problems. So much so that any competent google of the archives would >