Re: Problem with hdparam - TPA

Default User said:

<snip>

I don't see any more reason this time than the last that you
complained.

<shrug>

Then I came up with a way for you to not be bothered, which
I see you aren't even using.

Actually, I do have a filter set up for TPA. My filters are only on
*sometimes*, though - those who, like me, use KNode will perhaps
understand this better than others. KNode includes filtered articles in
its counts, so you don't *know* that you've read everything you want to
and not read everything you don't want to until you've turned off the
filter and eyeballed the scores of the remaining articles. Not ideal, but
there you are. Anyway, when I saw an article by Richard Harter in the
'unread' pile, naturally I wanted to read it - so I did.

Alternatively, you could always plonk me, too. There is no dishonour
in sharing a killfile with Richard Harter.

Are you to going to rude and insulting, like him?

That sentence no verb. I don't agree that Richard Harter was either
particularly rude or particularly insulting (although tactful he was
*not*). I don't completely agree with his position on net-copping, but he
does have a point, and he was expressing that point. I think he was
uncharitable to say that you are a bandwidth-wasting public nuisance. But
had he said (what I suspect he actually meant) that a large proportion of
your articles are a bandwidth-wasting public nuisance, I'd have agreed.

If so, then you will plonked.

Why should I care about that? You hardly ever provide technical corrections
to my articles, so of what value is it to me that you read my articles?
Why, in fact, should your plonking me bother me in the slightest? Why, in
fact, should it bother *anyone*?

Okay, so you've been silly enough to plonk Richard Harter. I reckon that's
going to cost you more knowledge than it will cost him.


If not, I don't see why I would. I believe you are unfairly
maligning my reasons for plonking him.

And I believe you should not net-cop people unless you are, at the very
least, also in a position to provide them with good technical help.

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Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk>
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"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
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