On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 09:52:46AM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote: > >I thought it was a valid viewpoint, though incomplete. > > It is virtually impossible to pay attention to any alleged validity > of what someone is saying when they have peppered their missive > with gratuitous and wholly ad-hominem landmines such as: I completely agree with Tom. Here are some other gratuitous insults and ad-hominem attacks which have unfortunately distracted from the possible validity of viewpoints expressed to p5p in the recent past: And just what have *you* done for _58 lately? Are you really that stupid, Ilya, or is it just time for your periodic month of invective? If there are any short piers in your area, please take a long walk. If you invested as much energy in fixing instead of bitching, you'd put yourself out of the job of bitching. Or do you really enjoy that job overmuch? Do you also subscribe to women's rights mailing lists and bombast them with mysogynist tirades? I note that the two recent confusions come from Michael Schwerne, whose self-selected IRC nick was historically "Stupid". The existence of crippled, short-sighted, primitive, comsumerist crapware systems should not stop those of us who actually have decent systems designed by programmers and for programmers from getting our jobs done. I can't help it if you, your neighbor, or your dog is not sufficiently skilled at running a professional system as so to give that decrepit system a proper name. That's a personal problem that you'll have to work out on your own. I hope that all p5p participants will make a concious effort to exclude inappropriate content from their posts. Ronald