"jpd" <read_the_sig@do.not.spam.it.invalid> wrote in message
news:4ge7soF1mudu7U1@individual.net...
>
>> Or perhaps he's a troll. No matter. I still don't see the need for
>> napalm.
>
> Do pay attention. It's not the first time this character has popped up.
> Every few months it morphs and fires inane questions all around until
> everyone has it killfiled again, only to restart the cycle later.
>
> As far as I am concerned, just killfiling it is the easiest. But
> otherwise, do as you please, I stopped caring long ago. Though defending
> its virtues, if any, does seem to be one of the more futile endeavours
> you can come up with.

Whoa - steady on. I'm not defending the troll. There are ways of dealing
with trolls, both in real life and on Usenet, that preserve the dignity of
the respondent (not the troll) rather more effectively. I'm heartily tired
of gratuitous flames.

And yes, I know the OpenBSD culture is famously flameworthy . But Theo and
others are mostly justified in their flames. I do worry sometimes that
flames here are considered hip. If so, that's trollish behaviour too, and
*that's* what I object to.

Steve
http://www.fivetrees.com