The Importance of Terminology's Quality

Lew lew at lewscanon.com
Fri May 9 01:45:04 EDT 2008


Waylen Gumbal wrote:
> Not everyone follows language-neutral groups (such as comp,programming 
> as you pointed out), so you actually reach more people by cross posting. 
> This is what I don't understand - everyone seems to assume that by cross 
> posting, one intends on start a "flamefest", when in fact most such 
> "flamefests" are started by those who cannot bring themselves to 
> skipping over the topic that they so dislike.

It's not an assumption in Xah Lee's case.  He spams newsgroups irregularly 
with rehashed essays from years ago, and a number of people are just tired of 
him.  Don't blame the victims for the perpetrator's actions, OK?

-- 
Lew



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