Re: [New Slrn/Slrnpull] Scoring
- From: PJR <pjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:27:34 +0100
On 7 Sep 2005 13:41:52 GMT, Stephen Chadfield <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in news.software.readers:
> Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On news.software.readers, in <slrndhtn8g.rfp.pjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "PJR" wrote:
>> <body not downloaded
>> http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/README.offline>
>>
>> PJR: You've been killscored here for ages.
>>
>> I'll never even download the body of another one of
>> your posts.
>>
>> <http://slrn.sourceforge.net/>
>> <http://home.earthlink.net/~alanconnor/slrn/>
>>
>> From your headers:
>>
>> Message-ID: <slrndhtn8g.rfp.pjr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux (Sid/Unstable)
>> X-Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
>> X-Irony-Meter: Alcatroll Kookproofer 1.3.3.7
>> X-Irony-Meter-Setting: Maximum
>> X-Hi-Alan: We're talking about you!
>
> I am staggered at the lunacy of someone who is not merely content to
> killfile a poster but insists on downloading and reading just the
> headers of their messages so they can criticise them in public!
Welcome to the strange world of Alan Connor. The first time I noticed
him, he was posting in misc.survivalism (and crossposting all over
Usenet) to explain that one couldn't be a true survivalist without
also being a vegetarian. (What made it better was that he argued the
case so cogently that one could almost believe him. Alan is kooky, but
he isn't dimwitted.)
He next appeared in comp.mail.misc to advocate a
flawed implementation of challenge/response spam filtering. The
regulars mostly disliked his idea, upon which he declared Seth
Breidbart (yes, *that* Seth Breidbart) to be a supporter of spammers,
and then proceeded to exceed the Breidbart Index himself by
advertising his C/R system in reply to every post of which he claimed
to have read only the headers.
Around the same time, or perhaps earlier, he was claiming to read
Usenet with a line-editor, killfiling posts as soon as he saw a header
he disapproved of.
Before I subscribed to NSR to discuss a problem I was having, and
found Alan here, the last time I saw him was in comp.mail.mutt, where
he was being smacked around (in the most civilised way possible) by
Sven Guckes, who is certainly one of the world's top three or four
Mutt experts.
He's also been making a prat of himself in news.newusers.questions,
according to Tim Skirvin (see http://www.killfile.org/dungeon/ for
details).
To a connoisseur of kooks and trolls, he's endlessly fascinating,
partly because it's so difficult to decide if he's pure kook, pure
troll or some combination of the two. Of the great kooks/trolls of the
past, I think he's most like Dmitri Vulis (whose career probably
provides a complete education in Usenet history if you follow all the
side issues).
> The same person enagaged in this idiotic and futile activity frequently
> posts stating his opinion that games and multi-media applications are
> waste of computing resources!
He doesn't approve of mice either. Or ISO-Latin, or XNA, or... [etc]
PJR :-)
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