On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:03:40 -0800, hari wrote:

> A bit of tongue-in-cheek in my reply ;-) I came across this group quite
> by accident.

Feel free to leave it on purpose.

I guess Debian doesn't have a fucking newsreader application, huh?

Top-posters suck. Stick that in your cheek.

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Le Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:30:32 +0200, Mark South a écrit*:

> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:22:04 +0000, ANC wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in Eastern philosophy and by that I mean non
>> Judeo-Christian
>> paradigms of belief structure and normative societal structures.
>
> Are we still trolling, or did the game switch to Buzzword Bingo?

Would that be intended as the antiphrasis of an oxymoron ;-)

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:08:19 +0200, Loki Harfagr wrote:

> Le Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:30:32 +0200, Mark South a écrit*:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:22:04 +0000, ANC wrote:
>>
>>> I'm interested in Eastern philosophy and by that I mean non
>>> Judeo-Christian
>>> paradigms of belief structure and normative societal structures.
>>
>> Are we still trolling, or did the game switch to Buzzword Bingo?
>
> Would that be intended as the antiphrasis of an oxymoron ;-)

BINGO!
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-- Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado

That was damn rude, dude. Take a break and cool off. I'm quite used to
this kind of shit you're posting.

I damn well will come and leave as I please. Another thing: Slackware
users like you give the community a fricking bad name.

hari wrote:

> That was damn rude, dude. Take a break and cool off. I'm quite used to
> this kind of shit you're posting.
>
> I damn well will come and leave as I please. Another thing: Slackware
> users like you give the community a fricking bad name.

GIVE a bad name? How about HAS a bad name?

The treatment you received for daring to mention the 'D' word or making an
implication that Slackware might be in some way inferior to any other
distro is classified as a 'crime against society' in this newsgroup and the
offender is dealt with with extreme prejudice.

You will not see one person here stand up and politely (or not!) chastise
Dan C., who is the leader of what I always see as a pack of wild dogs which
try their best (and always succeed) in intimidating anyone who disagrees
with them. There are others, most noteably 'ken'. These people post under a
cloak (I'm sure a white sheet and hood) and they are overtly and covertly
supported by the rest of the community even though they both exemplify the
worst of the human condition and are both 'evil' (I'm thinking Germany 1939
'evil').

In this group 'troll' is about as polite a name as you will be called. There
is nothing about you that Dan, 'ken', Melissa, Hicks, nb, Faux, and a whole
bunch of long-time 'inmates' won't attack. Your race, your religion, your
ethnic background, your spouse, nothing is off-limits here.

This is why when there needs to be serious discussions about Slackware's
role in the Linux community it does not and cannot take place here...
because evil triumphs in this group because the good people (all ten of
them) do nothing and are cowered by those in the white sheets and hoods who
honestly believe that they are the reincarnation of 1939 Germany. And I
have to agree with them, because that is what this group is... and you got
a really good look at what a society run by militant 'true believer'
fanatics is like.

You see the video footage on your nightly TV news show of masked gunman
holding an automatic weapon to the head of a bowed hostage? Welcome to
a.o.l.s.

anc

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:55:03 +0000, ANC wrote:

> hari wrote:
>
>> That was damn rude, dude. Take a break and cool off. I'm quite used to
>> this kind of shit you're posting.
>>
>> I damn well will come and leave as I please. Another thing: Slackware
>> users like you give the community a fricking bad name.
>
<snip>
>
> anc
>
It's only as bad as you think it is. You must think it's bad because
you haven't been elected as top dog. Jealous? There is no top dog, BTW.

This is another example of you starting a thread by calling sic 'em, which
was greeted with drowsy eyes all around.

You finish here, by validating godwin's law, twice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

To the OP:
You have it exactly right. This is newsgroups, do as you please. Including
top posting and other things which piss people off. Sign with pgp headers
if you can. Don't complain if you get flamed for it, though.

--
Douglas Mayne

I would be pleased if you can explain what "top posting" means. I'm new
to this group, though I've used Yahoo groups before. I am also a member
of many online forums.

Douglas Mayne wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:55:03 +0000, ANC wrote:
>
> > hari wrote:
> >
> >> That was damn rude, dude. Take a break and cool off. I'm quite used to
> >> this kind of shit you're posting.
> >>
> >> I damn well will come and leave as I please. Another thing: Slackware
> >> users like you give the community a fricking bad name.
> >
> <snip>
> >
> > anc
> >
> It's only as bad as you think it is. You must think it's bad because
> you haven't been elected as top dog. Jealous? There is no top dog, BTW.
>
> This is another example of you starting a thread by calling sic 'em, which
> was greeted with drowsy eyes all around.
>
> You finish here, by validating godwin's law, twice.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
>
> To the OP:
> You have it exactly right. This is newsgroups, do as you please. Including
> top posting and other things which piss people off. Sign with pgp headers
> if you can. Don't complain if you get flamed for it, though.
>
> --
> Douglas Mayne

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting

Ok, got it. Now the problem is how do I not top post... Hmm.

hari wrote:

> I would be pleased if you can explain what "top posting" means. I'm new
> to this group, though I've used Yahoo groups before. I am also a member
> of many online...

see the following:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:32:43 -0800, hari wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting
>
> Ok, got it. Now the problem is how do I not top post... Hmm.
>
Dan C was trying to tell you to use a real newsreader since you are
already running Linux.

This is important if you use google groups. Courtesy of CBFalconer's sig

"If you want to post a followup via groups.google.com, don't use
the broken "Reply" link at the bottom of the article. Click on
"show options" at the top of the article, then click on the
"Reply" at the bottom of the article headers." - Keith Thompson

Also, important, quote some context in what you are replying too.

Remember, this is usenet, not google groups. Say it twice ;-)

--
Douglas Mayne