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Re: malicious behavior
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:48:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Ross Crawford wrote:

   So please explain how that difference applies in this particular case?

You can’t assume that because he has posted on LUGNET a few times, he is reading or aware of anything that is going on on LUGNET.

I think you can assume that he is aware of whatever he replied to.

Conversely, you make my point. If he doesn’t reply to something, we can’t assume he’s read it, and it would be off his radar, or as I put it, “behind his back.” Your initial point was, because he posts now and then, he’s around and aware of what’s going on around here.

No, my initial point was because he posts now and then, I THINK he is still among the populace that reads Lugnet.

But you admitted that one doesn’t necessarily follow from the other, so I don’t know why you’d think THAT.

Because I DO.

Well, my point is that you have no reason to think that.

OK. Let’s try this from the other direction, kiddies.

The populace that still reads Lugnet is a group of people.

It contains many subgroups, for example:
  1. The people that still read lugnet.org.scibrick
  2. The people that still read a few groups once or twice a week because of the crap that spews forth from .off-topic.debate
  3. The people that still read all day every day just to see what crap is spewing forth from .off-topic.debate, and last but not least:
  4. The people that still read maybe 2 or 3 times a year just to reply to the odd thread
As an exercise, see how many more you can come up with by tomorrow.

Meanwhile, because lar is still in at least one of the sub-groups, I consider him a member of the umbrella populace. I’d call it a populus, but this isn’t a latin lesson.

  
  
  
  
  
  
   The only real way to know if someone is a regular reader is if that person posts often each week.

That’s one way, but not the ONLY way. Real or otherwise.

What? Consider my neighbor. Is he a regular reader of LUGNET or not?

Why don’t you ask him/her?

Why don’t you stop being obtuse and answer the question? I want to know another way you seem to THINK there is of knowing this information. And by “real”, I mean beyond seance, Ouija board, tarow cards, etc, and pure speculation.

I’m sorry for being so obtuse - I was simply pointing out that asking them is one other way to know (assuming you receive / believe the answer). Standing and looking over their shoulder while they read is another. Do you want me to go on?

You know my neighbor, and where we live? I chose my neighbor precisely because you don’t know him. You don’t know anything about him. Just as you don’t know anything about any given regular reader of LUGNET (who doesn’t post frequently). Get it?

Oh gees. What about if I ask you to ask your neighbour?

You seem to think this point is important. However once again, in the context of this thread, it is totally irrelevant, because the context was specifically about lar. And his email is relatively easy to find.

  
  
  
  
  
  
   Further, merely because LUGNET is a public forum in no way means that the entire world is privy to what is said in it.

Agreed. But irrelevant.

Then expain this statement by you: “Well I don’t think Al could get much more public than Lugnet, do you?”

Now you’re starting to sound like Tom - unable to put sentences in context.

Actually, that’s a good thing, because Tom was otonspay. (latin variant)

Now who’s being obtuse.

No Ross, that’s ironic humor!

Ha ha.

ROSCO



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  Re: malicious behavior
 
(...) He's not necessarily in the "still reading" subgroup category. He could've been just popping over to LUGNET when he got "pinged" by a regular reader, or after a major event like an ILTCO convention. Which is exactly what I suspect is the case. (...) (18 years ago, 16-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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  Re: malicious behavior
 
(...) Well, my point is that you have no reason to think that. (...) You know my neighbor, and where we live? I chose my neighbor precisely because you don't know him. You don't know anything about him. Just as you don't know anything about any (...) (18 years ago, 16-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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