🚀 go-pugleaf

Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes:

> On 7/18/2018 2:27 PM, Stephen M. Jones wrote:
>> The past couple of weeks I've been thinking about MRC a lot.  He was a
>> fixture on alt.sys.pdp10 and I'm sure people thought of him as a pretty
>> difficult person.  I knew him in person and I know the MRC face to face was
>> different than what you might come across on alt.sys.pdp10.  I recently came
>> across a memo authored by BAH regarding 3M and the shortage of DECTAPES,
>> et cetera and I also came across boxes carefully arranged by MRC from
>> Stanford that had not been opened until now.
>>
>> MRC was a private person and if he was a friend you could get to him.
>> For instance, he once gave me a DTMF code that would bypass his anti-
>> telemarketer setup on his phone when I need to all him on Bainbridge.  But
>> MRC could also turn on you and if he thought you had nothing to say, he'd
>> write an SMTP response that you'd get that would say something like:
>>
>> 451: STOP TALKING ABOUT IT ALREADY
>>
>> I think I still have that response somewhere.
>>
>
> ISTM that MRC did *not* "suffer fools lightly"... nor should he have
> done that IMO.  If you asked a question on <alt.sys.pdp10> ... a
> question that showed the asker had *not* worked much on his problem
> ... MRC would deride you and *not* offer any answers (other than to
> suggest you go away).  If a person's question indicated that the asker
> had done a lot of work on the problem, MRC was willing to offer help.
>
> MRC was *not* a baby sitter ... if you understood that, you'd get
> along fine with him.  IMHO
>
> I miss his presence on <alt.sys.pdp10> .

This MRC fellow doesn't sound like a nice person.

I've met more than a few people that acted like that and
never found it to be an endearing trait.

I know I'm smarter than average but don't see any point in
lording over the less gifted.

-- 
Dan Espen