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The next chapter in the Merkey sagaThe next chapter in the Merkey sagaPosted Jun 22, 2005 9:45 UTC (Wed) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463)Parent article: The next chapter in the Merkey saga
Merkey wrote:
Whereas the actual text by Bruce Perens reads:
And then
Now, obviously the statement is FALSE, furtheron he seems not to know what a kill file is. This in turn contradicts his allegiation that:
> Merkey is engaged in the software industry as a computer
Which contradicts again that the statements should be correct to the "best of his knowledge". If we assume that a computer scientist knows what a kill file is, this again contradicts that the "statements are true and correct".
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The next chapter in the Merkey saga Posted Jun 22, 2005 11:57 UTC (Wed) by cgray4 (guest, #11599) [Link] I hate to defend this guy, but it's not really fair to assume that every computer scientist knows what a killfile is.
The next chapter in the Merkey saga Posted Jun 22, 2005 12:50 UTC (Wed) by Alan_Hicks (subscriber, #20469) [Link] I hate to defend this guy, but it's not really fair to assume that every computer scientist knows what a killfile is. On the other hand I think it's perfectly fair. In the geek circles I run in, we have three mantras for enlightenment: 1) GAFC I cannot reasonably believe that a "computer scientist" cannot STFW when he sees something like "email kill file" and not discover and understand what it means without some malicious intent on his own part.
The next chapter in the Merkey saga Posted Jun 22, 2005 17:02 UTC (Wed) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266) [Link] Ok, #3 I know, #2 I assume is "Search the fine web", but what's GAFC? I tried to stfw but all I got was stock symbols :p
mrshiny
The next chapter in the Merkey saga Posted Jun 22, 2005 17:19 UTC (Wed) by QuisUtDeus (guest, #14854) [Link] GAFC guesses:Get a Fine Clue Grep All the Fine Code Guess At From Context
Jeff might think:
The next chapter in the Merkey saga Posted Jun 22, 2005 18:52 UTC (Wed) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266) [Link] Yes, the Clue one I thought of but telling someone to get a clue doesn't help much as a strategy. Guess At From Context is a good one though.
The next chapter in the Merkey saga Posted Jun 22, 2005 13:30 UTC (Wed) by jachim (subscriber, #2963) [Link] Oh come on! I knew what a killfile was about 3 days after I got my first Unix account back in 1990.
The next chapter in the Merkey saga Posted Jun 23, 2005 0:11 UTC (Thu) by qu1j0t3 (guest, #25786) [Link] I knew what a killfile was about 3 days after I got my first Unix account back in 1990I won't ask how you found out :-) Hopefully not the same way as J.V.M. (repeatedly).
The next chapter in the Merkey saga Posted Jun 23, 2005 13:39 UTC (Thu) by jachim (subscriber, #2963) [Link] No, not the way Jeff did.
And it actually wasn't email, but Usenet using tin.
The next chapter in the Merkey saga Posted Jun 24, 2005 13:45 UTC (Fri) by cgray4 (guest, #11599) [Link] And you are representative of every computer scientist?
I was simply saying that being a computer scientist does not immediately imply that you know what a killfile is. I know quite a few eminent computer scientists (academics) who probably do not know what a killfile is.
On the other hand, I would think in this case that Merkey has been killfiled so many times that in this case he's at least being deliberately obtuse, so it doesn't really matter.
The next chapter in the Merkey saga Posted Jun 25, 2005 4:02 UTC (Sat) by jachim (subscriber, #2963) [Link] Actually, at the time I was in the Electrical Engineering program and had not yet gotten my first computer to have a modem.
The next chapter in the Merkey saga Posted Jun 22, 2005 19:41 UTC (Wed) by xorbe (subscriber, #3165) [Link] Actually I'd never heard of an email killfile, but I do remember reading Bruce's comment the first time, and my thought was "oh that could be handy to have a list of emails addys to reject for my client"...
If a real comp sci person concludes that an "email killfile" is a mob hitlist... I suspect they might need a little help.
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