Our resident troll! She has been occasionally doing so, lately. Fortunately on a very sparse basis. Noticeable is that this particular intervention was not too trollish. A few of the recent ones were, though. Nice to know: I would have been upset, knowing such a shocking true like that the contrary had happened...
Will there be a FF plugin for this, BTW?
blazar on 2007-04-01T12:41:13
Indeed, I have this problem whenever I include
news:urls in web forums posts. In fact on my system they work seamlessly out of the box. But not everybody have a newsreader installed nowadays. And even if they have, not always is the system so smart as to call it on such urls.Sometimes, when I'm in a particularly non-lazy mood, I do include links to the corresponding Google Groups entries. But this can get tiresome at times...
Come to think of it, Google Groups' advanced search supports searches by msg id. (Which is the tool I use to find those links.) Thus I wonder if there's a FF plugin that would call that when clicking on a
news:url and there's no newsreader defined for the system. Actually I don't need it myself and I'm not motivated enough to search it...
Trolls of a higher breed...
blazar on 2007-04-01T23:50:07
Just the same day, another one made an appearance. This one is a troll whose crackpottery probably outweights the trollishness, although they are roughly comparable, and is definitely a crosscultural one, for his attempts are always crossposted. Knowing that Perl is his most hated religion, I somehow expected him to be considered less of a troll and a crackpot in other communities. Evidence as given in some other messages of that thread, which -I admit- I read notwithstandig the fact that I have him killfiled, gives me some relief by letting me know that this does not appear to be the case. That for sure makes for a high profile troll: it would have considerably lowered his reputation, not to be considered equally trollish in all of the environments he likes to harass...Re:Trolls of a higher breed...
Yanick on 2007-04-06T00:51:36
Ah, yes, Xah Le... I agree that the jury is still out as to which tribe -- crackpots or trolls -- he's part of, but the fact that he never partake in the flamethreads triggered by his posts kind of hint to the latter.
But we better stop listing the Who's Who of the c.l.p.m. freaks, lest people will begin to think it's akin to the Mosley Cantina -- a wretched hive of scum and villainy.;-) Perl freaks are better!
blazar on 2007-04-06T08:30:35
But we better stop listing the Who's Who of the c.l.p.m. freaks, lest people will begin to think it's akin to the Mosley Cantina -- a wretched hive of scum and villainy.;-) Fair enough, but judging from what I see in other communities I'm tempted to say that even in the realm of freaks Perl does better! OTOH with those two I think we've fundamentally exhausted the list of long term recurring PITAs in clpmisc.
Re:Perl freaks are better!
Yanick on 2007-04-08T15:07:07
judging from what I see in other communities I'm tempted to say that even in the realm of freaks Perl does better!
*g* True. Other languages may get mere freaks, but Perl attracts Kwalitee Kooks.
:-)
