Boy you're a slow learner
You've only been on usenet - what since 1990 based on googling. And all that energy wasted on sci.skeptic....tsk tsk. I think the most boring of usenet forums. (You'd find my early stuff in net.singles around 1983 or so).
Have you still not learned where the flame forums are and what they're for?
I'm guessin youngsters like you plain missed your netiquette lessons although I did find one author mention you being elevated to global status in his killfile - I really do sympathize there - so little of what you write is worth the reading when mixed so liberally with gasoline and set alight.
Tip - flames - (what you are pleased to call your "well earned disrespect") are much more appreciated in the flames forum.
There will be more lessons as educational opportunities arise.
I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customer got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.
--Alan Perlis
