On 2008-02-29, Two Ravens <two-ravens@operamail.org> wrote:
>
> Its not so much that people are feeding the 'Troll' its more that Tom
> N/Tom Newton is an idiot, who is 'advising' some who may be
> inexperienced enough to follow his so-called advice. Others are
> pointing out that not only is this idiots advice wrong, but in the case
> of his latest post, (vide the thread, "Re: $HOME variable gets lost
> when starting an X session"), using root as 'home', his so-called
> advice is diametrically opposed to what most reasonable people
> consider 'best practice'!

But other people are simply feeding ''Tom'', attempting a debate instead
of simply countering his awful advice. It is also considered best
practice to correct bad advice, get in a funny insult against ''Tom'',
and post without attempting to debate ''Tom'' directly.

--keith

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