Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

[Rjack]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> In gnu.misc.discuss Rjack <user@example.net> wrote:
> > Thufir Hawat wrote:
> > > On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:57:33 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>
>
> > > > These posts of yours are unreadable, RJ.  They go on and on
> > > > and on obsessively, yet they are none of them complete and
> > > > coherent.
>
> > Your whining continues obsessively Alan. Since you obviously
> > don't understand kill-files:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file please read up on the
> > merits of kill-files and then implement one.
>
> Hi, Rjack, please understand - I'm not whining, I'm trying to help
> you get your point across; I'm giving you feedback intended to be
> helpful.

Perhaps you should drop your attempts to "help" me get my point across
as futile. Try and read a good book instead. Coffee goes well with a
good book.

You are simply insulting anyone who hasn't decided to kill-file my
posts. Are other readers of Usenet to dumb to make up their own minds?
Your condescension is no more effective than are your insults.

> > A kill-file will save you untold anguish, as the characters from
> > my posts that appear on your LCD screen will certainly force you
> > to read them.
>
> That's like saying an air raid shelter will save the anguish of
> bombs.

Buzz bombs over London huh?

> Again, as a matter of interest, there are two different verbs in
> German meaning to persuade: "ueberzeugen" means to persuade by
> means of reason; "ueberreden" means to "persuade" by browbeating,
> shouting, intimidation. What you are trying to do here is the
> latter.  It's a shame there aren't two corresponding words in
> English.

Wow! Your teutonic superiority is self-evident. You're a veritable
Houston Stewart Chamberlain.

> You may not have noticed, but nobody's engaging you any more in
> serious debate about your idea.  It's been exhausted, talked out.
> You even admit you've posted several hundred times on the topic.
> Why can't you talk about something else, something others are
> interested in too?  That's what newsgroups and mailing lists are
> for.

Screen out the noise. That's what kill-files are for.

>

Sincerely,
Rjack :)