On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:56:59 -0000, "Brian Reay"
wrote:

Aero spike wrote:

Afraid not - he doesn't follow urls. I don't know if this is from
unfamiliarity with usenet, or that he can't read a reference and
understand which parts were relevant to the discussion. And anyway, if
you start quoting him back at himself, he killfiles you. Allegedly.

Treat it as another challenge- something we can teach him.

The problem is that he's appears to be such a slow learner - it takes
a lot of repetition before anything seemingly gets accepted, and even
then one isn't sure that it's just being regurgitated parrot-fashion.

I'm almost tempted to let him out of the killfile but I think I'll just
watch the follow ups for now. With a recalcitrant people it does no good to
give them too much rope early on.

Well, it's one of the downsides of usenet, we mustn't let it blind us
to its good qualities!
--
from
Aero Spike