From: Gunnar Hjalmarsson <noreply@...>
Date: 2005-09-21T04:16:38+09:00
Subject: Re: The Ruby troll: William James

Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> and even that assumes people are
> reading both groups which, i think, is the exception rather than the rule.

I think so too. That's why I crossposted to clr.

Austin Ziegler wrote:
> when your post about "The Ruby troll" came in, it
> was completely new to me and unrelated to anything else -- and
> absolutely no indication that your message had originated on clpm and
> was unceremoniously crossposted to clr (and therefore ruby-talk).

I did make a mistake in that respect, and for that I apologize.

Xho wrote:
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> I tried to called the Ruby community's attention to it:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_frm/thread/bbb053db6d9b7151
> 
> Why on Earth would you do such a thing?

To let the clr readers know that the regular clr poster William James is 
a Usenet troll. To rightfully discredit him.

>> Guess I hoped that one or two Ruby programmers would have dissociated
>> themselves from his actions.
> 
> What exactly kind of dissociation would you expect them to perform?

Well, one or two simple statements would have been nice.

If the opposite situation had been the case, i.e. some clpmisc regular 
had for several weeks spammed some other newsgroup with rude Perl 
advocacy posts, and somebody had complained to clpmisc, I have a feeling 
that a few clpmisc regulars would have made dissociative statements, and 
also made attempts to convince the culprit to stop.

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