Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:30:11 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the desktop (was: TheRegister article on Hotmail) Message-ID: <3DE071F3.F7D8CAAA@mindspring.com> References: <3DDF7691.22726.4FCB4F2@localhost> <02dc01c29338$320168c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DDFF5A3.10708@mtbiker.net> <02ed01c2933c$e2b7c390$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DE00F41.D5D828E9@mindspring.com> <031c01c29356$7f408300$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> Terry writes:
> > It's dedicated to advocacy of FreeBSD. Feel
> > free to advocate FreeBSD. If you feel the
> > need to advocate Windows, go elsewhere.
>
> It is increasingly obvious to me why Windows is doing so well.
Blind, unreasoning support of it by morons who have bought
into the idea that "What's good for Microsoft, is good for
America"?
> > So basically, you are being paid to hang out
> > here. I wonder by whom... not.
>
> Please elaborate.
You are a paid troll. You are paid to put opinions which are
dictated to you by your employers in the FreeBSD-Advocacy lists
and list archives, such that if someone wants to go find out
if FreeBSD will be a good desktop system, instead of getting
honest opinions by people using FreeBSD as a desktop system,
they see your crap about how "FreeBSD is just a server OS, and
doesn't work well as a desktop" -- which is a blatant lie on
your part.
Further, you go out of your way to remove message headers;
specifically, you re-address each message, so that there is no
"In-Reply-To:" header, so it's impossible to find the arguments
preceeding yours, lending them an apparent higher score than
they would be able to achieve on your own in context.
It is this, not an hinest mistake, which resulted in your posting
of private email to the mailing list: because you start with a
new message body for your reponse, rather than using a reply
option, and then cut-and paste the message you are replying to
into the message body.
The tools you use to do this are also the reason that you tend
to truncate quoted message bodies line lengths, reformatting
messages into near-unreadability. It is my opinion that this
is probably an intended effect of the tools, so that the messages
you post have two portions: the portion to which you are replying,
which is formatted into near-unreadability, and the portion that
you yourself wrote, which is not formatted this way, thus increasing
the probability that anoyone reading such a message will skip your
opponents arguments, and read only the crap you have written.
Other rhetorical techniques are also used to substantiate your
position, particularly when you are faced with someone who is
catching you out for the shill you are, such as dangling short
questions, quoting material out of context, answering questions
not asked, etc., etc..
You are a moron, if you believe that the people on this list do
not see through your little charade at "advocacy"(*).
Luckily, there are people who will refuse to allow them to be
archived as stand-alone statements; when people go searhing the
mailing list archives for threads, they will find followups,
like this one, which shows your post for what it is.
-- Terry
(*) Conditionalized -- therefore not ad hominim; if you chose to
trigger the condition, you're the one calling yourself names
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