On 2/10/2016 5:08 PM, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

Do you think trying to wreck someone's career is a proportional response
to mild criticism on usenet? I posted using my own name, using my
personal ISP account, in my own time, and he took the trouble to
research me and find out who I worked for (not hard, given at the time I
was listed on my employer's staff website. I'm retired now with a nice
payoff on a very comfortable pension), and contacted them in order to
maximise the distress and harm to me when the appropriate action would
have been to contact me using the real, working email address and other
information that I include in every post I make to Usenet.

Clearly you have suffered trauma. So your response to that trauma is to
come here and be a nuisance?


that his malicious nature is worth warning others about, yes. The man
is a basket case and needs to learn that actions have consequences.

But that is not what you do. You just get your jollies by denigrating
him and in the process trash these groups. This is the first in this
entire thread where you have mentioned these events. Even when you do
report on his indecent behavior, that does not justify the other dozens
or even hundreds of posts that are just you getting your jollies off.


Fortunately, as others have noted, uk.ra is circling the plughole
(=drain to leftpondians). Later this year, I or someone else will
produce a RFD proposing that it is removed. The best thing to do with a
festering pile of **** is to flush it down the toilet, and that is what
will happen.

Only because the few of you continue to wreck this group.


In the meantime, uk.ram is available for those who wish to make use of
it without having to deal with all the crap that goes on in in uk.ra.

By "crap", you mean *your* crap, right?

It is entirely within your power ("your" being the collective including
the other few of you who argue with Gareth) to end the abuse of this
group.

I can see none of this is getting through though. I really need to just
give up.

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Rick