🚀 go-pugleaf

On 7/19/2018 9:33 AM, Dan Espen wrote:
> 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.
> 

Mr. Espen, even you can get tired of people with stupid questions... 
people who waste your time and talents because they are too lazy (or not 
really interested enough) to do a *little* work and look things up 
themselves.

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