"Shannon Jacobs" <shanen@my-deja.com> wrote in message 
news:427969a2$0$648$44c9b20d@news3.asahi-net.or.jp...
> Danny Wilde wrote:
> <snip>
>> The question now is, why are you responding to him?
>
> I already answered that question:
>
>>> <snip> an occasional
>>> weakness for "kick me" signs.

Do you want him to kick you?

> I'll add that my other plans for GW obviously came to naught, I've caught 
> up on my most pressing correspondence, and I have a few hours to kill. And 
> _Imperial_Hubris_ is too bloodthirsty to enjoy for long stretches, though 
> it's an interesting perspective.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

> Yesterday's main time-killer was a little picnic at the local shrine. 
> Weather wasn't clear enough to see Fuji-san, but it was quiet enough that 
> I only saw about 5 people in two hours--but one of them ruined my pleasure 
> by insisting on making conversation. If her actual goal was to capture the 
> best bench, she succeeded, since I quickly left.

What are you doing here, then, actually choosing to make conversation with 
people you seem to dislike and frequently show contempt for?

> Today's big plan is to run down to the library and renew a book.

You're a wild man.

> Actually that returns us to the issue of sock puppets, since they bypass 
> killfiles. Reviewing this thread, it pretty obviously has one or two sock 
> puppets in it. Perhaps more. In the absence of authentication, you never 
> know if you are talking to an actual person, a fresh sock puppet, a sock 
> puppet impersonating an actual person, an actual person writing a parody 
> of a sock puppet, a sock puppet impersonating another sock puppet, ad 
> infinitum.

If you would like to join a discussion group, it might be worth lurking for 
a while until you work out who the people in the group are. Then you might 
add the people who you are not interested in to your killfile. "Sock 
puppets" as you describe them should be relatively easy to spot once you've 
been reading a newsgroup for a while. For what it's worth, my opinion is 
that no one on this newsgroup is an "alternative persona" of Mike Cash. But 
whoever is posting that "sex with n******" crap obviously is using more than 
one identity.

> The killfiles don't really help, because the fundamental design of NNTP is 
> flawed. It was designed in a "small universe" of mutual cooperation and 
> technical expertise that no longer exists. To remember those "days of 
> yore" fondly cannot bring them back.

OK, so just stop posting, if you don't like it. There's nothing 
earth-shatteringly important about this kind of chat-blah newsgroup. I'm 
sure there wasn't any great fascinating stuff in those "days of yore" 
either. And I'm also sure you won't miss anything if you just unsubscribe. 
So why not just do it?

Your own posts actually seem to be mostly kind of boring, computer nerd 
stuff.

> Google's new approach is interesting and shows significant potential. It's 
> not perfect, since the penalty for abuse is minimal, but at least they are 
> enforcing a higher level of accountability. They've already addressed the 
> responsiveness problem quite well, but the address-harvesting spam problem 
> remains unresolved. Another flawed design legacy of those happier, more 
> trusting days...

Oh, dear, never mind, I can see that the real reason you're posting here is 
because you're bored and you've got nothing better to do, except renew your 
library book, and apparently you're too antisocial to talk to any real human 
beings, so you come here just to tell all the people what idiots they all 
are, even though it's obvious that secretly you are really hoping people 
will acknowledge you. If you really think that somebody or other is an 
unbearable idiot, why not just quietly add him to a killfile and then ignore 
him? Then, if you find after killfiling that there is nothing left worth 
reading on the newsgroup, then why not just unsubscribe?

Danny.