Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rochester.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!rochester!ee461 From: ee461@rochester.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: flame at nameless people who submit garbage Message-ID: <2462@rochester.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 19:54:08 EDT Article-I.D.: rocheste.2462 Posted: Tue Aug 2 19:54:08 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Aug-83 00:09:56 EDT Organization: U. of Rochester, CS Dept. Lines: 35 There was a recent submission to one of the newsgroups which looked like this: > I quote someone at [site name]: > > [quotation] > > A [some technical issue] is utterly, TOTALLY, and irrevocably > UNRELATED to [another technical issue]. The perceptual effects of > the two [results] are likewise utterly dissimilar. > Good GRIEF! Good night! > > [random characters (site name)] ! [random characters (user id)] I've edited out the actual contents of [] brackets as it is irrelevant here. This flame is about methods used in discussion by some people. The stuff above was meant as a critique of one of my articles. But even if I inadvertently said some nonsense, I'd expect to see a rational argument that would prove to me (and to others) that I was incorrect. The polemical abilities that were exhibited by whoever submitted this garbage appear to be developed about as much as one would expect from an AI program written by a freshman on his first programming assignment. If you say that something is wrong, SHOW IT !! At least one person would benefit from your pearls of wisdom. And if your only contribution is "Good GRIEF" and "Good night", SEND IT TO /dev/null !! Also, I don't like to be referred to as "someone". This is why I sign my articles. Why some people don't sign their submissions ? The signature is at least a clue that an article was conceived in a human brain, and not by some AI miscarriage that is run from crontab once daily using randomly chosen news items as input! Krzysztof Kozminski (ee461@rochester) PS. No insult to freshmen, AI or crontab was meant.