Subject: Re: [Usenet Pedophiles] Rules and conduct on Usenet Date: 23 Oct 2000 09:37:02 GMT From: dvus <dven1@borg.com.invalid> Org: VeriMod (<URL:http://www.uiuc.edu/~tskirvin/verimod/>) Froups: news.admin.net-abuse.policy
"Unit 4" <unit4@i-plus.net> wrote in message news:srq7vsofajt57pgh9ilqor2kvi3mjvdb72@4ax.com... > On 23 Oct 2000 04:14:19 GMT, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote, in > news.admin.net-abuse.policy: > > }After seven years of this stuff, it's true that I don't find it > }particularly productive or a good use of my time to argue things to death > }and back again, particularly with people who are having all sorts of fun > }with word games and severe distortions of other people's opinions. That > }doesn't mean they don't have good points underneath the presentation, just > }that I'm not going to play very long. > > That should be sigged. > > It should also be printed out and looked at before posting something > particularly heart-felt regrading a particular point. We all fall prey to it > sometimes.
Yeah, but I have an excuse. I thought we were having a serious discussion in which both sides would listen and compromise based on what they read. I'm a little new to this forum and didn't know the "rules" so to speak. That "Harry" guy fooled me the most, in fact I now realize he was listening the least. More than any, he based the quality of others intentions on how closely they agreed with him.
Bufford and "Fluffy" got to me with that double-team action they employed, kinda like a "bad cop-worse cop" routine. At times I forgot who I was even replying to, a fact they used to further confound me into having to stop and go back to see what I had said and to whom. They must have done this before to be so adroit.
In a way, this has been fascinating for me, having never interacted with theses types before. If nothing else I have learned that there's a lot more "types" of people that get involved in these discussions than I had ever thought.
I wondered why Russ quit so soon, now I kinda wish I'd taken a leaf from his book and stood back awhile too see where things were going, but then again, if everyone on this end of the discussion did that all there'd be is that "mutual admiration" conversation I mentioned earlier. I guess I'll just have to be content with discovering that there's little point in getting too invested in one of these things, no matter how you try to conduct yourself, things will go awry at some point.
dvus
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