[comp.unix.internals] Irrational debaters are not necessary

bill@franklin.com (bill) (06/12/91)

In article <1991Jun10.213158.24056@ladc.bull.com>
	fmayhar@hermes.ladc.bull.com writes:
: He probably won't go away, but that's OK.  Early on in his tirade against
: shared libraries (etc.), he and I exchanged several pieces of email.  Based
: on his comments therein, his name now has a prominent position in my kill
: file.  Right after John Palmer.
:
: This guy is apparently one of those who has his mind made up, regardless of
: any contradictory facts that may be brought to his attention.  Debating with
: him is a waste of time, as you have seen.

I'll agree with that. When I posted my article on one way to do
shared libraries right, his e-mail response was as full of
non-facts, irrelevancies, rudeness, and non sequiturs as his
public postings. Moreoever, he totally missed the one point I did
neglect to cover in my posting.

I also refuse to deal with this person; I have better things to
do than to deal with the arrogantly dogmatic and willfully blind.

We can't get rid of him; we *can* ignore him, flame him, or laugh
at him, until he gets the message that we don't need or want his 
nonsense.