I generally avoid Usenet. The signal to noise ratio has dropped so much that's is almost impossible to find anything of value. However, since I've been out of work I've found myself drawn back to it more and more. I do try to impose three rules on myself:
Unfortunately I find myself breaking at least the first and third in this little debate. I just can't sit back and watch Godzilla attack nms without defending it.
The sad thing is, she does seem to have found some issues with running the guestbook on some unspecified Win32 platform. We'd love to address her concerns, but getting any kind of reasonable bug report out her is impossible.
Godzilla is not a woman.
Re:Please use 'he' and not 'she'
davorg on 2002-04-15T15:10:57
Ooh. I didn't know that. "It" always claims to be woman and there are photos of a woman on "its" website that is supposed to be her. If you have evidence to the contrary, I'd love to see it.
Re:Please use 'he' and not 'she'
hfb on 2002-04-15T15:44:11
No evidence per se but I had the same reaction the first time I noticed Abigail. This person is male, known to most of it's victims and is trying to make a point in this little backwater. Considering how few women there are around these parts you have to ask yourself why one would choose to troll clpm for kicks...and for so long. No, it's a man, baby! Yeah!
:) You also have to consider that the gender has played a very large role in its trolling success and what that means in the bigger picture. Someone is having fun in this community with their unenlightened sense of self, ego and gender issues. I'm certain this person is a man. "On the internet, noone knows you're a dog"
Re:Please use 'he' and not 'she'
davorg on 2002-04-15T15:59:47
If it is a hoax, it's a very elaborate one. Have you seen "its" web site?
http://la.znet.com/user/callgirl/
There's an awful lot of stuff there.
IMO, the jury is still out. I'll jsut resort to using "it"
:) Re:Please use 'he' and not 'she'
hfb on 2002-04-15T16:37:43
Well, or that you guys are easily duped. I'll start putting a picture of my male St. Bernard on my personal web page and see how many of you literalist fskheads believe it
:) How do guys 'get' Monty Python jokes anyway? "It" is a man, really :) Re:Please use 'he' and not 'she'
djberg96 on 2002-04-15T17:00:58
How do guys 'get' Monty Python jokes anyway?You know, Godzilla once bit my sister.
Re:Please use 'he' and not 'she'
chaoticset on 2002-04-16T16:54:46
Godzilla bites can be very nasti.
Wait a minute - maybe Matt Wright *is* Godzilla!
Re:Ignore
davorg on 2002-04-15T15:10:22
I learned to ignore Godzilla long ago. He/she/it usually posts nothing of value whatsoever.Well that's certainly true. But if "it" is posting "information" saying that nms is worthless in a newsgroup where people might not know that she should be ignored, then I feel I have to post a correction.
