🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 20:14:04 +0200, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote:
>On 2018-07-25 19:29, Questor wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Jul 2018 23:47:13 +0200, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote:
>>> On 2018-07-24 19:06, Questor wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 11:18:03 +0200, Johnny Billquist <b...@softjar.se> wrote:
>>>>> How on earth did this become a MRC bashing thread by people who didn't
>>>>> even know him, what he did, or what he wrote???
>>>>
>>>> Who are you accusing of bashing MRC, or not knowing what he did?
>>>>
>>>> This thread aptly demonstrates the saying (the origin of which is not clear)
>>>> that "people may not remember what you said, but they will remember how you made
>>>> them feel."  Mark could be abrasive at times, and that stands out just as much
>>>> as the contributions he made to the PDP-10 community.
>>>
>>> To quote Mr. Espen above, since you don't seem to care to read the history:
>> [.,..]
>>> Or to quote you:
>> 
>> You can quote all the irrelevant posts you like, but it still doesn't support
>> your claim.
>> 
>> It's not bashing if it's true.
>
>Bashing have nothing to do with the truthfulness of the statement or not.

It certainly does.  Imagine that when person X drives a car, they travel at
twice the speed limit, swerve all over the road, bang into other cars, don't
stop at traffic signals, and so on.  Am I bashing them if I say person X is a
very bad and unsafe driver?  If that is bashing them, what should I say about
the driving of person X instead?


>Look up the word maybe? (I did, since I'm not a native speaker, although 
>I was pretty sure what the meaning of the word was anyway).

Then I would say your reading comphrension of English is poor.  You are
imagining that I wrote things I did not.


>And you asked who I was accusing of bashing MRC. Is there any better way 
>to answer that than by quoting such bashings and illustrations of 
>expression of not knowing the guy?

I've known about Mark Crispin since the mid-1980s.  I've been reading
alt.sys.pdp10 for over twenty years, so I've read almost everything he ever
wrote there.


>Jeez. The guy is dead and cannot defend himself. You are attributing 
>various things to him which definitely go beyond what you know about and 
>attacking him as a person. 

What, specifically, have I attributed to him?  What attack did I make on him as
a person?  You need to read what I wrote more carefully.


>And I can assure you that I had plenty of discussions with him, and I 
>didn't have any problems with him.

Other people obviously did, to varying degrees.