[Am-info] Who is this fellow?

[Sujal Shah]

On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 13:00, Eric M. Hopper wrote:
[SNIP]
> 	Oh, great.  What a wondeful example of an ad hominem attack.

For the record, Simon engages in such attacks regularly.  In this
particular instance, he started with the escalation of threats...
(remember the email implying that he would contact someone's ISP?).

People just get too emotional... we've already seen what it can do (I'm
thinking of the Brett Glass era, and the ridiculous length to which some
of the debates went, my own posts and actions included).

Please exercise some restraint.  If Simon bothers you, please *don't*
reply to anything he says.  Point out the fallacies in his arguments. 
They're generally easy to find if/when he's wrong or expressing a biased
opinion.

Typically, I end up quite happy after doing so, since he tends to be
wrong much of the time.  It's a much better way of showing the strength
of your position than calling him names.

Sujal

> You're just as wonderful as the muckrakers politicians have to dig up
> dirt on their opponents.  I frankly don't _care_ what Simon's answer was
> because the message you quoted appears to have nothing to do with
> Microsoft or even the computer industry at all.
> 
> 	You should be ashamed of yourself.
> 
> *sigh*,
> -- 
> "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
> It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."  --- Thomas Jefferson
> "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."  -- Mark Twain
> -- Eric Hopper (hopper@omnifarious.org  http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper) --
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