16 Sep
2004
16 Sep
'04
3:29 p.m.
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:42:52 +0100
From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordon(a)gjcp.net>
Subject: Re: Site Privacy issues
John Lawson wrote:
> I do understand perfectly that your's is an
innocuous, semi-private
site,
> and making the info available to the Legacy
Computing community is
quite
<gordon(a)gjcp.net> replies:
I just can't understand the thinking behind that.
Do you take all the
back-up
batteries out of your PCs, so you can set up the BIOS from scratch every
time?
[snip]
Gordon, either you're very used to reasoning with young teenagers, or
perhaps you are quite young yourself - no matter. There is a term:
reductio ad absurdam, and I shall not dignify your post any further than
to refer you to that term, it's definition, meaning, and how it might
apply to the above..
Cheers
John