Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!vsi1!wyse!mips!prls!philabs!philmtl!ray From: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Raymond Dunn) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Scrap the current NG creation procedure, invent a new one Message-ID: <429@philmtl.philips.ca> Date: 3 Apr 89 22:49:24 GMT References: <3010@looking.UUCP> <63@norsat.UUCP> <288@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> <3031@looking.UUCP> Reply-To: ray@philmtl.UUCP (Raymond Dunn) Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. - St. Laurent P.Q., Canada Lines: 57 In article <3031@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: >I cause controversy for one reason. I do things and I am unwilling to >be cowed by flamage. If that is what he believes, then why does he subject us all to the expressions of pain when he gets burnt? >I am going to do all sorts of other new and even more >controversial things in the near future. Brad's common sense is underwhelming! His assumption that to be worthwhile, an action has to be controversial shows an.. umm.. interesting philosophy. My children are often deliberately controversial, at least my younger one is. The elder one learned some years ago that there are more profitable ways of getting attention, and certainly easier ways of getting his own way. Even the younger one has the sense to play with fire only once or twice a year! Perhaps we should ask Brad to fill in the gaps for us and expound his "philosophy of life", so that we can be moderate our toleration of him - one way or another. In the meantime, I certainly hope that the next time he deliberately fans the flames, he licks his wounds in private, but that wouldn't be part of the philosophy I presume. The need to complain about the heat of the kitchen seems part of what makes it worthwhile, I suppose, part of "doing". This latest posting can be directly compared with his "six-million" joke posted during the JEDR affair, i.e. "Hmm. The controversy seems to have died down, what can I do to bring it to life again." It all gets a little tiresome. I wonder what the plan is exactly, this plan of deliberate controversy. Could it be to see how far he can go before alienating even his staunchest supporters? You know, of all the crazy postings over the years that have caused screaming and gnashing of teeth, the MES's, the weemba's, the tcp-ip.eniacs, the cabals, the gangs, the jj's, the portals, the deliberate obnoxiousness, the threats of lawsuits and predictions of doom for USENET, only Templeton it seems to me has actually *caused* newspapers to be involved, the net to be held in public disrepute, newsgroups to be officially dropped by important sites (if even temporarily), and *real* threats, coming from without, to be made. Geesh, and he promises us more! What fun! Perhaps Brad's current statement of policy is the biggest threat we currently face. Or then again, perhaps this is just a vicious personal attack on someone with a great sense of humour whose motives couldn't possible be in question (even now?). -- Ray Dunn. | UUCP: ..!uunet!philmtl!ray Philips Electronics Ltd. | TEL : (514) 744-8200 Ext: 2347 600 Dr Frederik Philips Blvd | FAX : (514) 744-6455 St Laurent. Quebec. H4M 2S9 | TLX : 05-824090