Re: linux sucks - just once before I die...

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:31:09 +0000, Matt Giwer wrote:

frank wrote:
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:43:34 +0000, Matt Giwer wrote:
Suicyco wrote:
i'd like to know why i have to waste 10-15 cd just so CENTOS won't
install

Never use anything above your ability to understand. Stick with windows
like my
aging parents.

Now why did you bother trolling here instead of asking for help?

I'd like to see postings of this nature receive NO response whatsoever.

So would I but aggressive responses tend to hold them off for a while.

I have no general idea how to deal with with them. I have been on BBSs
for 25
years and Usenet since a year after the internet went public. There
appears to be no general rule on how to deal with them.

If you have one please post it. I'm easy.

Matt, and anyone else reading this:

Thanks for participating in this thread and though my computing goes back
26 years this past May I'll defer to your greater experience with on-line
activities.

Still, I feel the very best response to all these postings is absolutely
no response. None. Not from anyone. Not to refute. Not to correct. Not
to inform.

I'll invoke the psychological principle that behaviors go to extinction if
they aren't reinforced. Obviously, this is poor policy in many situations
- yes a charging rhino will eventually get bored and go away, but sadly
you'll not be able to enjoy satisfaction of your exercise of restraint!

However, in this case, and in those of all other newsgroups I haunt, I
have never seen any response to a purely provocative posting accomplish
anything but encouraging and usually inflaming the original poster as well
as the all-too-easily engaged partisans on either side of the issue.

I'm sure you have something specific in mind by your referring to
"aggressive responses" but what those might be in the case of a posting
with the subject "Linux sucks" I can only imagine:

Suicyco wrote:
I'd like to know why I have to waste 10-15 CDs just so CENTOS won't
install

I don't even want to speculate on what self-image is implied by the handle
"Suicyco" but the only logical response to this message given a
willingness to overlook its ignorance and trollsomeness is simply "You
don't" but why bother.

Frank

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