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From: Mark Fergerson
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Subject: Re: Lack of trolls, kooks etc. in SED --- Theories?
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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 19:23:26 GMT
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John Woodgate wrote:
>
> I read in sci.electronics.design that Mark Fergerson
> wrote (in <3D936969.3B6979C1@cox.net>) about 'Lack
> of trolls, kooks etc. in SED --- Theories?', on Thu, 26 Sep 2002:
> >Dirk Bruere wrote:
> >>
> >> "Mark Fergerson" wrote in message
> >> news:3D90ABBB.63A3566D@cox.net...
> >> > Al Borowski wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > Hi all,
> >> > >
> >> > > Whatever happened to all the wierdo's who used to inhabit
> >> > > Sci.Electronics.Design?
> >> > >
> >> > > I remember this time 2 years ago there were at least 5 full time
> >> > > trolls and our very own in house kook, R (You know who I'm talking
> >> > > about). Now, this newsgroup is eeriely quiet and on-topic. Whatever
> >> > > happened to these indivduals?
> >> >
> >> > I recall flaming R once, intimating a
> >> > mental disorder (on his part) and
> >> > offering some (non-)professional advice,
> >> > for which _I_ got slightly flamed. He
> >> > vanished shortly thereafter.
> >>
> >> You better shut your mouth Fergy or I'll sue you!
> >
> > ???
> >
> > I don't recall offering you any psych
> >advice...
> >
> It was never necessary to offer anything; all you had to do to get a
> flame was to exist.
Dirk isn't flaming me as such, I don't
think. He doesn't do that in
sci.physics, where we regularly agree to
disagree on various topics (those not
applicable to objective verification,
anyway).
OTOH he's not above yanking my chain
occasionally (and vice versa, so there).
Mark L. Fergerson