Site Privacy issues

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_panix.com>
Date: Thu Sep 16 22:29:47 2004

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:42:52 +0100
From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordon_at_gjcp.net>
Subject: Re: Site Privacy issues

    John Lawson wrote:

>> I do understand perfectly that your's is an innocuous, semi-private
site,
>> and making the info available to the Legacy Computing community is
quite

   <gordon_at_gjcp.net> replies:


> I just can't understand the thinking behind that. Do you take all the
> back-up
> batteries out of your PCs, so you can set up the BIOS from scratch every
> time?

[snip]

   Gordon, either you're very used to reasoning with young teenagers, or
perhaps you are quite young yourself - no matter. There is a term:
reductio ad absurdam, and I shall not dignify your post any further than
to refer you to that term, it's definition, meaning, and how it might
apply to the above..


   Cheers

John
Received on Thu Sep 16 2004 - 22:29:47 BST