This is a very odd post to rec.audio.pro. It is also factually
incorrect concerning costs and supports for servers (assuming normal
servers looking after web, mail, print, backup, etc... and not user
programs) but this is hardly the appropriate forum for debate. Given
that very few people on this mail group will be using linux why the
protest? I probably should have ignored it but why was it posted?

"andy" wrote ...
This is a very odd post to rec.audio.pro. It is also factually
incorrect concerning costs and supports for servers (assuming normal
servers looking after web, mail, print, backup, etc... and not user
programs) but this is hardly the appropriate forum for debate. Given
that very few people on this mail group will be using linux why the
protest? I probably should have ignored it but why was it posted?

It seems to be an offshoot from the "Linux and audio pro"
thread. Dunno why Mr. Lee started a new thread?

"andy" wrote in message
ups.com...
This is a very odd post to rec.audio.pro. It is also factually
incorrect concerning costs and supports for servers (assuming normal
servers looking after web, mail, print, backup, etc... and not user
programs) but this is hardly the appropriate forum for debate. Given
that very few people on this mail group will be using linux why the
protest? I probably should have ignored it but why was it posted?


Apologies to rec.audio.pro

It would appear that the individual who began the thread in your forum is
suffering from some sort of psychological abnormality and/or has a vendetta
against Linux or certain people who support it. It seems that this person
has been posting similar anti-linux messages with, as you have noted,
certain liberties being taken in regards to the truthfulness of his
messages, which naturally incite a number of people in each group to
respond.

Some of those people take considerable umbrage at his liberties with facts
and their responses may include a bit of outrage at his oft-repeated antics.
His inclusion of at least one non-linux group in each cross-posting would
seem to be a premeditated attempt to expose non-linux groups to the
controversy that inevitably arises.

It is, unfortunately, not possible to censor his diatribes from those groups
who have no interest.

We regret the disturbance to your group.

Hopefully, the majority of those who respond to his posts will be
considerate of those unrelated groups and not include them in follow-ups. It
is evident that even non-linux users are able to discern the truth of his
material, and responses in those groups are unnecessary. His own behavior is
sufficient to characterize his aberration.

andy poked his little head through the XP firewall and said:

This is a very odd post to rec.audio.pro. It is also factually
incorrect concerning costs and supports for servers (assuming normal
servers looking after web, mail, print, backup, etc... and not user
programs) but this is hardly the appropriate forum for debate. Given
that very few people on this mail group will be using linux why the
protest? I probably should have ignored it but why was it posted?

Troll by a particulary obsessed and dogged individual. This individual
apparently likes audio apps, and likes using them as a fulcrum to spew
idiocy to our newsgroup, to yours, and to others such as
alt.locksmithing.

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When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

On Sun, 29 May 2005 13:32:43 -0700, andy wrote:

This is a very odd post to rec.audio.pro. It is also factually
incorrect concerning costs and supports for servers (assuming normal
servers looking after web, mail, print, backup, etc... and not user
programs) but this is hardly the appropriate forum for debate. Given
that very few people on this mail group will be using linux why the
protest? I probably should have ignored it but why was it posted?

To troll. It's a common tactic of the stupid idiots who love to disrupt
COLA to cross-post their rubbish to some unrelated group and cause the
maximum annoyance possible.

--
Kier

andy wrote:
This is a very odd post to rec.audio.pro. It is also factually
incorrect concerning costs and supports for servers (assuming normal
servers looking after web, mail, print, backup, etc... and not user
programs) but this is hardly the appropriate forum for debate. Given
that very few people on this mail group will be using linux why the
protest? I probably should have ignored it but why was it posted?


cross-posting removed.

Hi Andy,
It was posted by a troll, in order to get you to respond. Check the
headers for weirdly non-associated groups in the cross postings - such
as linux groups crossed with drugs, abortion, flowers, locksmithing etc.
groups. Their trick is to cause a cross-flow - it may be some odd sexual
thing - I don't know. But one thing is for certain; Plonk them and don't
respond.

Michael

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