Re: The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

On Jul 8, 8:54 am, Lew <l...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Twisted wrote:
And STOP TRYING TO HIJACK MY RESPONSES. It won't work. I've told you
time and time again if I want to follow up to your postings I will do
so and you will not be permitted to make the responses disappear by
redirecting them somehow to some other newsgroup. Why do you still
persist in trying? Maybe you really believe I'm the sort of idiot you
insult me by publicly claiming I am? Well, trying to trick me amounts
to yet one more insult then. My response to that is simple: Go f$&!
yourself.

Blatant paranoia, tremendous rudeness and complete irrelevance.

[Snip remaining rather peculiar mix of insults and backhanded
compliments]

It is not paranoia -- someone or some thing keeps trying to redirect
my responses to comp.emacs, a newsgroup I don't subscribe to, where
they could then flame my responses with impunity because I wouldn't
have the opportunity to see and respond to their attacks. Basically,
someone (several someones?) is trying to hustle this discussion away
from where I'll see whatever they're saying about me and in response
to what I write, and to make my responses disappear into what is, from
my perspective, a black hole. This has several bad consequences:

1. If I'm insulted in comp.lang.java.programmer but my response
rebutting those attacks is whisked away to someplace else, it fails to
neutralize the effects of the insults in comp.lang.java.programmer, on
whatever audience reads there but not the "someplace else". And that
portion of the audience that does not read the "someplace else" is
known to have a size greater than zero, since I'm one of them.
2. I might be further insulted in replies to my response, and not even
see those attacks to be able to rebut any of them.
3. Or something genuinely interesting or useful might be posted in
reply, and go undetected because it fails to appear in
comp.lang.java.programmer (or any other newsgroup I read regularly).
4. It is impossible to properly follow a thread when your view of it
is incomplete. Hijacked responses not appearing anywhere that I will
see them (whether my responses or someone else's) will obviously make
my view of the thread incomplete.
5. Furthermore, I am not going to subscribe to what I suspect may very
well be the newsgroup from hell just to be able to follow this thread!
I have too many subscribed groups to follow as it is, and not enough
time in one day as it is.

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