From: Walton Hoops <me@...>
Date: 2011-06-11T13:30:21+09:00
Subject: Re: PSA: Ilias is Crazy

On 6/10/2011 12:41 PM, Ryan Davis wrote:
> http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/Ruby/IliasIsCrazy.html
>
From that site:
> Here is what I suggest. Create a mail signature or reply template with
> advice to ignore Ilias and no longer respond to him. *Every* time
> someone responds to him, email that person with the standard response.
> If enough people pick this up, and every time someone responds to
> Ilias they get 10+ form letters asking them not to, it should do a
> quick enough job of discouraging further threads.

I truly hope no one takes that advice.  If I get 10+ of these things
spammed to my inbox because I tried to help someone, it's not Ilias who
will wind up on my blacklist, it's the spammers.  Respond in thread
*once* if you must but spamming someones inbox for that is just
jack-assery.  Especially considering the target of your animosity has
had 4 of 8 issues accepted (and 2 still being discussed, 1 which IMO is
a good idea).

As I've said previously, I don't like Ilias, but that doesn't mean that
nothing he has to say is valid or worth discussing.  And if he really is
this bad, nature will run it's course and soon everyone will ignore him
naturally.  It already seems like the Ilias stuff has dropped off
substantially.

Personally, I wish we could get MINSWAN(Matz is nice, so we are nice)
back as a community, but that seems to have fallen by the wayside. 
Spamming some poor soul for trying to answer a question is certainly not
nice.