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Just wondering, Richard... was his alias name "Beyond Hairball"? ;-)
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From: "The Funkhousers" <funkhouser@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Omega- List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 2:11 PM
Subject: "Odd" Events
> It's amazing how one individual can destroy an otherwise valuable list
> like this one. I have never been an advocate of a "moderated" list
> until recently, when a really good list became polluted by the rantings
> and ravings of one individual -- and what a person it was:
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> He only posted from an alias location with an alias name.
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> He felt that the world, and especially commercial ventures, both owed
> him a living and the obligation to freely give him whatever he wanted,
> however he wanted it, and whenever he wanted it.
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> If anyone didn't comply, he attacked them for being morally deficient
> scam artists, or ignoramuses who didn't understand what they were
> talking about.
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> He personally provided all the list participants with an ideal model of
> the individual who has high levels of both integrity and ability.
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> First, by helping us all avoid the necessity of paying for the items
> that ordinary individuals are forced, through their ignorance, to buy
> from those who created them.
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> And secondly, by documenting his personal competence in the area being
> discussed, by posting "new" insights; ideas which clearly were at odds
> with what every experienced practitioner in the field had heretofore
> believed were true. Even ideas as simple as this forums definition of a
> "moving average."
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> What I really couldn't understand was the other list participants
> willingness to play his game and let him play the role of "sheriff." He
> dominated the list with his vitriol, but the other list members helped
> him do so by actually replying to his posts as if their logic mattered.
> No matter the content of the reply, it was evidence in his mind that
> they were idiots at best, but more probably crooks too.
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> I guess if you are one, it's easy to believe that everyone else is one
> too.
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> And if he was only ignored, and not given an audience, he would have
> gone elsewhere eventually.
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> I'm sure glad we don't have that problem on this list.
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> Richard Funkhouser
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