culling the species

[Julia Thompson]

On Sun, 18 May 2008, xponentrob wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charlie Bell" <charlie at culturelist.org>
> To: "Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion" <brin-l at mccmedia.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 9:59 AM
> Subject: Re: culling the species
>
>
>> He's not too rude, as you'd know if you'd bothered to pay attention.
>> He tries extremely hard, but he has trouble with understanding the way
>> e-mail programs quote, and manually quotes every post. If just one of
>> us lived nearby and could pop round and demonstrate stuff, jon would
>> find life much easier.
>
> I have my doubts about that.
> The program he uses for email by default quotes more or less correctly.
> With all the help people have tried to give him over these last months and
> he still does not quote in any regard as a respectable netizen, I am left
> with little but suspicion. Specifically, that it is intentional.
> Having been immersed elsewhere in all manner of trollery and disingenuity, I
> have grown accustomed to recognizing the tricks that can be employed,
> technical or memetic. Months of  "I'm a clueless newbie, indulge me" is
> pretty old at this point.
> I don't have a problem with what Jon has to say, after all it is well within
> the realm of what we have seen before on this list and comes as no surprise.
> But the claim that he cannot do a simple technical task makes me want to say
> "TitsOrGTFO"

He stated awhile back that he really doesn't *like* the way the program 
does quotes, and apparently puts a lot of effort into stripping it out.

At least, that was my understanding at the time.

 	Julia