Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: do { quit; } else { } Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 08:06:36 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: <86cydodn9f.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <86ldsdfocs.fsf@linuxsc.com> <20250406162607.0000657a@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:06:39 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="58fc992bf3d49f6866b08a85a8ed3f48"; logging-data="59811"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19AuzwmLtwQvJ1mh49bTOprBvvCQjeUdp0=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ca1iTQvFjhygizHr2Q3GIkOo84w= sha1:y58t9hIQSdS4D04jyHlGLetMzb8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:392151 gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes: > In article <20250406162607.0000657a@yahoo.com>, > Michael S wrote: > ... > >> More interesting question than the one above is: why post of Alexis >> from 3 months ago named "Opinion on defer" is on topic in c.l.c ? >> How exactly can we draw a line between two cases? > > Tim Wrench is clearly a lunatic. And he's in my killfile. > > The language he uses in this thread is just beyond the pale (*) in > terms of rudeness and non-civility. If his target was anyone else > (and especially if it was an old regular), we'd probably have 20 > posts already condemning his language. I usually read postings from Kenny. Before now I didn't know he had put me in his killfile, or that he had this reaction to my comments. In posting a followup to a message, I make an effort to respond to the content and not the person. I don't feel obliged to follow this rule in cases where there seems to be a regular pattern of rude or anti-social behavior.