Re: Brittish and US SF

On 2006-01-04 07:53:43 -0800, r.rice@xxxxxxxxxxx said:

I'm just curious if there is a reason that you and Kurt feel it's
necessary to feed the troll?

I actually killfiled him sometime yesterday, once we got to the point that I realized his argument was limited to denying any logic or counterexample and restating his assertion.

Then he switched addresses, so he started turning up again, and since he decided I'd said something I hadn't, I nit-picked.

kdb

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