Re: Documentation Correctness was Re: How many levels of indentsandheads are reasonable?

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

:-)


Hickling, Lisa (TOR) wrote:
> List Member of the Year Awards! And the TeWie goes to...everyone who
> avoids responses to recurrently annoying threads.
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> The other nominees were Richard Lewis, Generic Richard, Tony Markos,
> Tony Markatos, et al.
> Richard's posts are proof that negative advertising sells and that
> people remember and respond in droves to dreadful ads. Thanks, Richard,
> for the social experiment! Exhibit A: here I am responding to a thread
> that is rife with the unsupported claims and useless diatribe that I
> usually reserve for deletion (and adding to it). Henceforth, I'll
> continue to be reticent on Richard's views because the more expressive
> among us (the uncontrolled group in the experiment) are baited to
> numerous moot attempts to prove him wrong!
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> Richard's right in his own unique "DFD-or-bust" context, why challenge
> and re-challenge him? I've never been a supporter of his views but it is
> getting harder and harder to distinguish the baseless from the
> authoritative in threads like this, even when I *know* from the outset
> which side is which. Enough already!
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> Even so, I can only say "Go Richard"! As the numbers of those who feel
> compelled to respond to drivel swell, he'll be a shoe in for the award
> next year!
> 
> Lisa H.
> GTA, ON
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will Sansbury
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> To all involved in this ridiculous back and forth:
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> It's been a solid week. Can we move on already?
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> The thing I wish many of you here on TECHWR-L would realize is that, by
> feeling the need to rebuke trollish behavior, you're perpetuating it.
> I'm
> not sure which is more damaging to the TECHWR-L community: the troll or
> the
> people who give the troll the attention he craves.
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> It's abundantly obvious that opinions on all sides are immutable, so let
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> go. When there is no hope of anything productive coming from the debate,
> it
> devolves into some grotesque intellectual pissing contest...
> And,frankly, I
> am tired of being splashed while standing on the sidelines.
> 
> Will Sansbury
> Who is curious to see if the number of people unsubscribing has spiked
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