Re: Lamer [WAS: RE: win95 (an appology)]

[Chuck Mead <chuck moongroup com>]

On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Greg Thomas spewed into the bitstream:

> 
> > Ya know gang, I've noticed that periodically someone on this list engages
> > in behavior that is typically outrageous in some fashion, accompanied
> > closely by rudeness, though I must say the post from Master MacCraw was
> > waaay beyond rude.  He was able to show the posterior portion of his
> > anatomy seemingly with no effort at all.  Kinda scary.
> 
> I wouldn't be surprised if the original poster and MacCraw are just two
> paranoid MS fanatic buddies trying to stir up trouble.  Too me the
> original post was too lame to not be inflammatory.  Nobody, not even the
> most ignorant Win95 person in the world posts a question like "I'm having
> trouble booting Win95, can you help me" to a non-MS newsgroup or list.   

My impression was that the original poster was not a native english speaker and
he/she was just kind of limping along on the list. It wasn't his/her only post
and they all seemed to have a definite newbie flavor about them. The language
command wasn't what you'd expect from someone who's native tongue was english.
That was fine and the list is normally so friendly the poster probably felt
comfortable asking the M$ question. Most of the other responses he/she got to
that post were a bit "tongue in cheek" :-) but McCraw took offense which (from
what I could see) was exactly what he came to the list to do.

I think that all of his posts (to this and one other thread that I saw) were
trolls and I really don't care much about that but I'm not gonna leave the bad
language alone... none of us should... we don't have to tolerate it!

Just my $00.02!

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