The Problem with Programming

[Ramon F Herrera]

http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/17831/

-Ramon

 

[Chris Uppal]

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Please note that the above post was both cross-posted *and* multi-posted, and
consider the implications thereof before spending your own time replying.

-- chris

 

[Ramon F Herrera]

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Please note that the above post was both cross-posted *and* multi-posted, and
consider the implications thereof before spending your own time replying.

-- chris

Thank you very much, Mister Vigilante. I realized that the Linux crowd
didn't have much use to discuss this post in a professional manner.
Then, some anal retentive folks like yourself want to tell the teacher
who is misbehaving.

The implications are that whoever replies from the more serious groups
(any group outside COLA) will actually have a chance to discuss the
material from MIT (where I work) in a rational manner.

-Ramon

 

[=?iso-8859-1?q?Kirit_S=E6lensminde?=]

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Please note that the above post was both cross-posted *and* multi-posted, and
consider the implications thereof before spending your own time replying.

-- chris

Thank you very much, Mister Vigilante. I realized that the Linux crowd
didn't have much use to discuss this post in a professional manner.
Then, some anal retentive folks like yourself want to tell the teacher
who is misbehaving.

The implications are that whoever replies from the more serious groups
(any group outside COLA) will actually have a chance to discuss the
material from MIT (where I work) in a rational manner.

If it was a serious attempt to start a discussion then putting more
than just a link in the post would have been the sensible way to not
make it look like a troll or spam.


K

 

[Andrew Thompson]

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Please note that the above post was both cross-posted *and* multi-posted, and
consider the implications thereof before spending your own time replying.

....
Thank you very much,

Yeah.. thanks for the heads up Chris.

.....Mister Vigilante. I realized that the Linux crowd
didn't have much use to discuss this post in a professional manner.
Then, some anal retentive folks like yourself want to tell the teacher
who is misbehaving.

Well, partly he was speaking to the hoards of folks who
will now (especially after your response) have pegged you
as a clueless moron with an over-developed sense of
self entitlement (the last in a long line).

Follow-ups set - as I see fit.

Andrew T.

 

[Tris Orendorff]

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Please note that the above post was both cross-posted *and* multi-posted, and
consider the implications thereof before spending your own time replying.

-- chris

Thank you very much, Mister Vigilante. I realized that the Linux crowd
didn't have much use to discuss this post in a professional manner.
Then, some anal retentive folks like yourself want to tell the teacher
who is misbehaving.

The implications are that whoever replies from the more serious groups
(any group outside COLA) will actually have a chance to discuss the
material from MIT (where I work) in a rational manner.

Bah! What are you, a slacker? The correct way is to do it the way I do it: Visit every single
newsgroup, look for this message and reply to it. It's the only rational manner.

In order to save time I will also write a program, perhaps written in ADA or FORTRAN, to do this
for me automatically so if someone cross-posts *and* multi-posts again, I will be ready.

 

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Ramon F Herrera wrote:

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Please note that the above post was both cross-posted *and* multi-posted, and
consider the implications thereof before spending your own time replying.

-- chris

Thank you very much, Mister Vigilante. I realized that the Linux crowd
didn't have much use to discuss this post in a professional manner.
Then, some anal retentive folks like yourself want to tell the teacher
who is misbehaving.

The implications are that whoever replies from the more serious groups
(any group outside COLA) will actually have a chance to discuss the
material from MIT (where I work) in a rational manner.

Bah! What are you, a slacker? The correct way is to do it the way I do it: Visit every single
newsgroup, look for this message and reply to it. It's the only rational manner.

In order to save time I will also write a program, perhaps written in ADA or FORTRAN, to do this
for me automatically so if someone cross-posts *and* multi-posts again, I will be ready.

Better, have your program automatically collect the email of the
subscribers of each newsgroups, and send a distinct direct email to
each of them with your answer.

 

[Simon Brooke]

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Please note that the above post was both cross-posted *and*
multi-posted, and consider the implications thereof before spending your
own time replying.

-- chris

Thank you very much, Mister Vigilante. I realized that the Linux crowd
didn't have much use to discuss this post in a professional manner.
Then, some anal retentive folks like yourself want to tell the teacher
who is misbehaving.

The implications are that whoever replies from the more serious groups
(any group outside COLA) will actually have a chance to discuss the
material from MIT (where I work) in a rational manner.

Given that it is multi-posted, in which group should we discuss it in a
rational manner? How are we to find all the other rational discussions of
it which you have scattered liberally across Usenet? Do you at MIT have an
ESP device which would aid us in this?

Many thanks.

--
(e-mail address removed) (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

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[Karl Uppiano]

Given that it is multi-posted, in which group should we discuss it in a

rational manner? How are we to find all the other rational discussions of
it which you have scattered liberally across Usenet? Do you at MIT have an
ESP device which would aid us in this?

Well, I thought it *was* an interesting article, anyway. What is the best
way to put something out there on multiple newsgroups without multiple
posting or cross-posting? I am genuinely curious. Obviously the OP's
approach was not PC.

 

[Chris Smith]

Well, I thought it *was* an interesting article, anyway. What is the best
way to put something out there on multiple newsgroups without multiple
posting or cross-posting? I am genuinely curious. Obviously the OP's
approach was not PC.

First, one would ask whether readers of all the newsgroups would
necessarily be interested. If the answer is yes, then the right way to
do it would be:

(a) cross-post, rather than multi-posting
(b) set the Followup-To header to the most appropriate group
(c) include a note at the top notifying people that followups are set

 

[Lew]

Ramon F Herrera wrote:

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Please note that the above post was both cross-posted *and* multi-posted, and
consider the implications thereof before spending your own time replying.

-- chris

If it was a serious attempt to start a discussion then putting more
than just a link in the post would have been the sensible way to not
make it look like a troll or spam.

Avoiding trollish behavior like insults /ad hominem/ would help your case,
too, Senor Herrera.

In any community one should adhere to the politesse of that community. Usenet
decorum precludes multi-posting. That is well established and well documented.

You'll catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Being rude and
insulting doesn't exactly entice.

I for one didn't even bother clicking your link, for the reason Kirit pointed
out and because of the warning about your trollish spamlike behavior, and
seeing that your response leapt right into a flamewar ignition, I never will.
If you deem that small loss, well, you really don't know if I could have
contributed, and I probably represent a significant number of people attuned
to netiquette and scams who also will not. Where one cockroach appears,
another hundred like me are probably hidden within the walls.

Interesting that you lambast the "Linux crowd" in a message I found in a
newsgroup unrelated to Linux. In fact, none of the cross-posted groups are
Linux boards.

Oh, and Chris didn't tell the "teacher" who was misbehaving, he warned all the
students. Thank you, Chris. The blame goes not to the one who warns, but the
one who misbehaves.

- Lew

 

[Jim Langston]

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Please note that the above post was both cross-posted *and* multi-posted,
and
consider the implications thereof before spending your own time replying.

-- chris

Thank you very much, Mister Vigilante. I realized that the Linux crowd
didn't have much use to discuss this post in a professional manner.
Then, some anal retentive folks like yourself want to tell the teacher
who is misbehaving.

The implications are that whoever replies from the more serious groups
(any group outside COLA) will actually have a chance to discuss the
material from MIT (where I work) in a rational manner.

-Ramon

*PLOINK*