Re: of product promotion and consumer representation

["Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com>]

Paul Rickard wrote:

>Gene Gaines <gene.gaines@ibm.net> writes:
> > Lewis, shut it off.  Drop it.  You have a view.  You have expressed
> > it as nauseum.  Continuing to beat the same drum is not useful.
> > Beat your drum perhaps once a month and we all will respect you.
> >
> > IF YOU CANNOT DO THIS, I PROPOSE YOU BE BANNED FROM THE LIST.
>
>I'd like to add my voice in support of this.
>
>Current Mettlerometer:  70 of the previous 100 articles in my AM spool
>contain the words "Lewis" or "Mettler".
>
>This does not make the list more useful.


Before we consider that, we should try not responding to him.  I 
personally started filtering all Lewis's messages (and even some 
replies to his messages, ie email that contains "Lewis Mettler 
wrote:") into my trash mailbox several days ago.

The only person who was forcibly removed from this list was Brett, 
because he took almost every thread and tried to turn it into an 
anti-GPL discussion even if nobody else brought it up.  It seems to 
me, however, that Lewis does not hijack every thread in this manner, 
even though his tactic of putting words in peoples' mouths is quite 
irritating.  At least he does have things to say about issues other 
than bundling.

--
Eric Bennett / ericb@pobox.com / emb22@cornell.edu  www.pobox.com/~ericb/
Cornell University, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

I have no idea what you're talking about when you say "ask".
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