And, both of
you, I don't care who you are and when you were working
with what; the kind of remarks you've been throwing at one another
are, in my opinion, way over the top.
When somebody comes here posting way over
the top crap, what are we
supposed to do?
Not "respond in kind", that's for sure.
My own recommended list of actions, in order, approximately:
- Ignore. (This includes responding to the factual contact as factual
content and ignoring the emotional tone.)
- Call the poster on it. (Politely - this doesn't mean "retaliation".)
- Write to Jay.
- Mechanically ignore (killfile, procmail to /dev/null, etc).
Of course, this is a baseline, meant to be applied with "common sense",
not as an inflexible algorithm, and is only an approximation anyway.
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