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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: leave -MB- ALONE!!!!!
Keywords: -MB-
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.202146.16360@convex.com>
Date: 14 Jan 91 20:21:46 GMT
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In article <1991Jan14.175855.12336@zoot.avgrp.cr.rok.com> dah@zoot.avgrp.cr.rok.com (Dave Haverkamp) writes:
                              [...]
>   Some times MB does come up with some very valid points in his posts.  I
>think of him as the young child who always asks "Why?".

I think of him as an emotionally disturbed individual with obsessive
tendencies.  He is a Man-With-A-Mission: to somehow convince everyone
in this newsgroup that his values and desires for the Amiga are the
correct ones.  He *is* like a child in many ways:

1) Foolishness expressed by brash statements reflecting fundamental ignorance.

2) Selfishness expressed by an "I want" list that ignores the constraints
   of the real world.

3) Childish and bitter temper tantrums when reasonable people explain these
   constraints.

4) A one track mind that parrots the same topics over and over until, after
   over a year of reading his silly and inane posts, I already know the
   substance of what he is going to say before he says it.

5) An attitude of self importance that insists that he be the center of
   attention, expressed in sneaky switching of accounts in order to avoid
   the kill files of those who would prefer not to read his posts.  This is
   a fact which he openly confessed to me in personal email.

>                                                            Too many people 
>just flame MB without any thought.  I'm tired of seeing, "I'm going to put
>iastate in my kill file" or "MB get the hell out of comp.sys.amiga".

I've never told Marc to get out of comp.sys.amiga.  He is welcome to post
whenever and wherever he pleases.  I have spent more time than I like to
think about reading his posts and giving reasoned responses to them.  There
comes a point when you become convinced that you are wasting your time.
I have reached that point.  His posts have not changed substantively since he
first appeared in this forum.  Therefore all I ask is the opportunity to
ignore his posts, via my kill file.  His efforts to evade the kill file
are what have prompted me to flame him most recently.

You would be surprised to know how much thought preceded many of the flames
you believed to be thoughtless.

>                                                                      People
>like that are more close minded than MB.  At least MB has the courage to
>ask questions.

There is very little ground separating the courageous from the fool.  You
should not be so quick to attribute his forwardness to courage.

>                Are they afraid that his questions will make C= crumble?
>C= has been around for awhile, and should continue to be around in the future.

I can't speak for others in this news group.  I am not afraid of him, though.
I'm just weary of him.
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