lacking follow-through

[Paul Boddie]

On 13 Sep, 08:38, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
>
> His recent posts have generally been quite different from those of some
> months ago.  Even he recognizes that they were somewhat weird and has
> tried to do better.

And I think we should at least go along with people if they're willing
to raise their level of discussion. I'd much rather read messages at
the level of the one which initiated this thread than idiotic,
supposedly humorous responses about contributors being "bots".

> Did he ever make any degrading attacks on people like the above, to
> deserve receiving such?  This reminds me of my elementary school, where
> people who made social mistakes were sometimes never allowed to recover
> but were dumped on for years.

I get this impression as well: that "seniority" gives some kind of
right to dump on anyone, and that we should all find this a source of
amusement. It seems more like American high school, Hollywood style,
if you ask me.

Paul