Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: David Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: New Usenapp user Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:02:53 +0000 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <7pdbrjhj108udmvr2ul3dbj9dmugref37r@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net IPK0UBL3dG8jf05d+ydJMgVu64TZwlyEcIVj03MGJd2M5uVo3s Cancel-Lock: sha1:44NeCs37UbyYXkZiV3ZwVtqqyds= sha256:FgeCYJEOQJIb8C8hePBg8VBjfY39px+cw56QlAqik5g= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.sys.mac:180384 On 20/02/2025 12:17, John wrote: > On 19 Feb 2025 11:40:22 GMT, Bernd Froehlich > wrote: > >> On 19. Feb 2025 at 11:54:18 CET, "John" wrote: >> >>> Please? For me? To be nice? >> >> Could you (and anyone else) please just stop responding to him? >> >> Pretty please? > > I generally don't respond to the 'nymshifter but I thought that the > making of one small request in twenty years or so would not be > considered excessive and would not really be thought to be feeding him > oxygen. > > So, I was wrong and apparently I did a Really Bad Thing(TM). My > mistake. I won't do it again. > > Thank you ever so much for the lovely, polite response, I will > treasure it forever. I am sure that the 'nymshifter will also be very > happy with it as he has seen many, many requests not to respond to him > over the decades and knows that they are universally ignored by > everyone. Still, surely *your* impassioned, reasonable plea for us not > to engage him will no doubt be completely effective. > > I am fairly sure that my plea that he stop changing his pseudonym, > email addresses and other identifying marks, that he never again > 'nymshift, will, in the name of decency, compassion and politeness be > accepted in the gentle spirit in which it was offered and will be > immediately and forever respected by him. > > I just know that he has done his last shift. > > Still, as per the above, I won't ask him again. I will respect your > wishes, for I am really ever so nice. He's just pissed that his lot lost the war! ;-)