Jim wrote:
> Mark Kent came up with this when he headbutted the keyboard a moment ago
> in comp.os.linux.advocacy:
>
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>> Jim <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Aftab Singh came up with this when he headbutted the keyboard a moment
> ago
>>> in comp.os.linux.advocacy:
>>>
>>>> I am new linux user and seeks some advice to help people switch to
> linux.
>>>> I find this group but it seems to be mostly spam from newsbot.
>>>> Can anyone offer a better place on internet to talk about Linux?
>>>> Thank you for consideration Aftab Singh
>>>
>>> comp.os.linux.misc is a /little/ less noisy.
>>> alt.os.linux.suse is another favourite hangout of mine, very little
>>> noise there.
>>>
>>> FWIW, if you decide to go the IRC route, /avoid/ #linux on Undernet like
>>> the /plague/. Troll Central there, and they don't like people asking
>>> questions in there /at/ /all/. Better place for live chat is
>>> #creative_minds on the same network.
>>
>> You're talking to flatty! He's not used this nym for a while, but he
>> has used it before.
>>
>
> It was a smart question.
Actually, no, it wasn't
It simply was flatfish pretending to be a "new linux user" and
being "distracted" by the [news] posts
The very posts flatfish claims would "distract new users"
> I don't go hunting through the headers to see who
> it might have actually been from, and I don't trawl through posting
> history on Google either (unlike some people who shall not be named - you
> know who you are). If I see a post that I think merits an answer, I'll
> answer it (unless someone beat me to the punch). Whether that answer is a
> scathing repartee on the apparent intelligence of the OP or calling into
> question his parental heritage, or giving sound advice, is entirely up to
> me. I calls it like I sees it.
Then you give flatfish exactly the platform he craves for
The only suiteable course to deal with flatfish is to not answer his drivel
at all, or to tell him to take a hike with his constant lies and nymshifts
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