Re: PGP protection

From: Jordan Benedict Gray (csucdd_at_dcs.warwick.ac.uk)
Date: 11/19/03 

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:17:50 +0000

Alan Connor wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 03:18:03 +0000, Jordan Benedict Gray <csucdd@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> I have never seen so many lies, exaggerations, half-truths, mis-directions
> and outright fantasies in one post in my life.
>
> You sir, are a scumbag.
>

  Wha...?

  Ah. I see.

  'This thread, it seems, was started by a self-confessed troll...' -
myself, in the previous posting.

  This statement should have been changed. '...was started...' should
read '...is perpetuated largely...' I intended to change it when I got
half way down and thought 'no, wait, he didn't!' but despite my
exceptional long-term memory, my working memory is quite pitiful. A
nasty, and often eventful, paradox.

  I was referring to rm, in case it isn't clear. It seems that you,
then, are the progenitor, or that you are offended on someone else's behalf?

  If that is the case, please disregard my answers to the rest of this
post and accept my apologies, since I'd consider them appropriate if you
were in a state of emotional arousal. If you were just posting that to
be insulting for no good reason, then by all means, read on.

> The Usenet has spoken: You and your little PGPsig cult are invited to
> put your garbage in your headers or to get the hell off the Usenet.
>

  What garbage? Where is the PGP sig? I barely have a clue what use they
are, never mind including one in my sig!

> You are NOT exempt from the guidelines that almost everyone else on
> the Usenet follow, and for very good reasons.
>

  This is a group, right? A group is self-contained, to an extent. So,
regardless of whether alt.cookies.yum.yum.yum allows people to top-post,
use five-line, non-standard sigs or forget to label off topic threads
'OT,' this group may choose not to support any of the above.

> The program you use is DELIBERATELY designed, UN-necessarily, to clutter
> up the body of posts.
>

  Mozilla? And sometimes pine? This is news to me.

> People keep calling you on your netiquette violations, and you just attack
> them visciously, like rabid dogs.
>

  I've been called once, for not snipping a long post. Twice, if you
count this occasion, and apparently even you don't know why.

> Which tells us all that much more about who you and your tiny band
> than you should want to reveal.
>

  Indeed. My band, which is currently a singleton, is in agreement.

>
> People who tell people that they are breaking the rules are NOT trolls.
>

  As I've pointed out above, the rest of Usenet can go to hell if
accepted standards here are different from those elsewhere. The local
posting style, surely, takes precedence over the general style.

  Take, for example, my University's local groups. People don't adhere
to a rigorous set of rules, and are seldom (if ever) called up on the
matter. If they were to transfer the same standards to this newsgroup,
they would probably be flamed to a crisp. And (while I may feel people
can be excessive) it would be an expected response to a serious breach
of conduct.

> Yet you call them that....
>

  I call Randy Myers, a verified troll, a troll. I assume I need not
mince words to account for his sensitivities?

> But then, all criminals hate cops, don't they?
>
>
> AC 

--
Jordan (It can't hurt, can it? But it looks so much uglier...)

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