[Wikipedia-l] Re: Re: Wikipedia English English

Gerrit Holl gerrit at nl.linux.org
Fri Sep 23 16:45:19 UTC 2005


Mark Williamson wrote:
> 1) I don't call people I disagree with barking mad, unless they really
> are barking mad. I believe this is the first time in a few months I've
> called anyone barking mad, and in the intervening time there have been
> plenty of people with whom I've had disagreements. I think most people
> on this list would agree that Mr Jack and Naree is "barking mad".

I disagree.

> 3) Mr. Jack & Naree's most recent message is a bit daft ("looks like
> he failed"). If he had the sense to check, he would see that that
> message was not, in fact, a response to his "troll test" e-mail but
> rather to his earlier e-mail which was written in all-caps. And, if it
> takes two to troll, why is just about everybody else on this list
> calling him a troll? Does that mean that they're all trolls too? And,
> of course, this isn't a response to him, but a note to you which is
> related to but not in response to his message. And if anyone so
> wishes, I invite them to inform Mr Macdaddy that the troll test, from
> now on, applies to him as well: if he IS a troll, he'll make another
> post to this or related threads; if he ISN'T a troll, he won't.

Who else agrees that he's a troll?

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A signature in allcaps... Hmm...

Gerrit.

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