Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: ???Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich: C/C++ should be deprecated??? Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 10:50:58 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 60 Message-ID: <87czbgn1tp.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> References: <87mtamm3mw.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="12e4500a99c6636202301e8531a74c4f"; logging-data="132415"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+l0BPWCezVD1CWWYnN8mBd" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+7VfgsfqisepLBMe/T/TjucGOWQ= sha1:a6vbr31Rp8Pqlcz6JfOlWaMHJeI= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:167879 comp.lang.c++:86656 Juha Nieminen writes: > In comp.lang.c++ Keith Thompson wrote: >> Juha, if you do not stop feeding the trolls, I will treat you >> as a troll yourself and add you to my killfile. You do not have >> to respond to everything. I have several users filtered out by >> the equivalent of a killfile. You are bypassing my killfile by >> posting responses. Please stop. > > Which pretty much makes killfiles useless. I have never understood, > and will never understand, why people use them. They are useless. > The only thing they do is that they break threads and make them > disjointed. And if you just keep adding people to your killfile > because they keep responding to people in your killfile, or to > people responding to those, or to people responding to those... > sooner or later you'll have almost everybody in your killfile > and see nothing. > > I honestly cannot see the point. I'm going to assume that you actually want an explanation. That might be a bad assumption. My killfile is extremely useful. It filters out posts by a handful of users who would otherwise seriously damage the signal-to-noise ratio of my view of this newsgroup. It makes this newsgroup a much more pleasant place. Most other users here have enough sense to refrain from posting followups to noise. My killfile does not generally make threads disjointed, because typically none of the participants in a meaningful thread are in my killfile. You are one of the few users here who both posts relevent content *and* posts annoying responses to trolls. Most recently, you posted: > I thought you weren't reading any of my "nonsense". So why are you? > > Just go away, asshole. because, apparently, you thought that *all* readers of this newsgroup needed to see you say that. We really really didn't. I'll note that the particular troll you were replying to posts under what appears to be a valid email address, so you could have contacted them directly. Honestly, I understand the urge to feed the trolls. I've done it myself. But I strongly suggest that you learn to let them have the last word -- or it will never end. Perhaps you now understand a bit better. Whether you do or not, my previous statement stands. Your positive contributions here do not outweigh the noise you produce with posts like your recent one. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com Working, but not speaking, for Philips void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */