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Re: This forum has gone to crap

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Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
[...]
>> Sigh.  I know I can't reply without vanishing up my own logical arse,
>> but if this group is not to turn into comp.[something-else] it requires
>> that people simply resist the temptation to reply.  I think you reply to
>> [X], or to replies to [X], more than anyone else.  Can I prevail on
>> you to stop?  There is lots of evidence that nothing you or anyone else
>> says will stop [X]'s rudeness.  Not replying to *any* of it is the
>> *only* solution.
>
> I second this request generically, not just to RH but everyone,
> for every poster who flouts the customs and general courtesies
> of the group.  The only way to get such people to stop is to
> stop engaging them.

I agree, but with one proviso.  In my experience, not engaging such
people *doesn't* necessarily get them to stop.  At best, it reduces
the volume.  Still, it's the best we can do.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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