[CCTALK] RE: Rants

From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dougq_at_iglou.com>
Date: Fri May 17 08:10:59 2002

> On Friday 17 May 2002 06:14, you wrote:
>
> > I think the obvious answer comes from the Church of the Subgenius:
> > your first duty as a member is to form your own splinter sect.
> >
> > By putting each Classic Computer Collector in their own
> > separate mailing list, we'll reduce the number of offended,
> > minus those who can successfully argue with themselves
> > either by virtue of nature, nuture or medication.
>
> Arent there variants of Eliza type programs that can do just that ?

Raymond, some of us were wondering if it might not be the
case that Raymond Moyers was such a program...

> A lefty bot would be easy to program, it would need only
> the standard reflexive stack of responses, and need have
> no input or sensation of reality.

Which would be no different than a righty bot, a Scientology
Bot, etc.
 
> Raymond
>
> Jimmy Carter said Monday he saw no evidence that Cuba makes
> biological weapons. Last year he saw no evidence North Korea
> makes nuclear weapons. It doesn't look dignified when a former
> president campaigns that openly to be Archbishop of Boston. .
> -- Argus Hamilton
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Although I don't think *anyone* on the list cares, it is
usual and customary, when quoting people who are not widely
known by a particular readership, to provide a statement as
to who the person is who is being quoted. For example:

> -- Argus Hamilton, right-wing comedian

Otherwise, such quotes fall out of the category of commentary
and into the category of propaganda...

If you really are motivated by an altruistic desire to enlighten
people with whom you view you have something special in common
(the interest or love of vintage computing systems), let me tell
you, the way you (and others) go about it does not work.

OTOH, if self-expression is your goal, why not just set up a
web page and thread it onto as many search engines as you can,
and perhaps include a url in your .sig that points to it? Or
join in one of the many unmoderated USENET newsgroups which
deal with this sort of communication by design?

Again, you have clearly have good experience with Unix systems
which the list would benefit from. But if you keep this ranting
up, everyone will just start to filter you out.

-dq
Received on Fri May 17 2002 - 08:10:59 BST