4 Sep
1998
4 Sep
'98
1:31 a.m.
On 4 Sep 98 at 1:24, Sam Ismail wrote:
This guy was a mega turd. Although his FAQ was good,
and his amazingly
peurile action of obliterating the FAQ over his personal holy war against
perceived or actual piracy of mostly obsolete software was indeed bizarre,
there are plenty of replacement FAQs available to help out the novice.
The "new" FAQs can be downloaded from the Ground FTP server at
ground.ecn.uiowa.edu
This debate is being perpetuated by people who have
absolutely no life
whatsoever. I engaged in that debate for a few weeks and then went on
with my life. This was 2 years ago, AND THIS DEBATE IS STILL RAGING!
Things have improved on the csa2 newsgroup following NM's departure.
You forgot to mention his trademark "read the FAQ, stupid" response to
every naive question. As you said, definitely a group for the
sociologists to enjoy in years to come on Dejanews...
Phil
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