From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Andrew Simmons Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:22:30 +1300 Subject: [9fans] drawterm Topicbox-Message-UUID: 954d40e0-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >You're growing into Boyd's shoes quite well -- lots of whining, >hardly any actual contribution, and convenient memory loss >to reinforce your desired view of the world. Oh for fuck's sake. Perhaps you're justified in feeling peevish towards Uriel, but I don't care. Was it really necessary to take a gratuitously nasty swipe at some one who is no longer here to answer back? Even if you didn't care for Boyd's posts - and I personally, along with many others, found them unfailingly entertaining, and think the list is a good deal poorer for his absence - at least you could be accurate in your criticism. "Lots of whining"? I don't recall Boyd ever whining. "Hardly any actual contribution"? In terms of code, no doubt accurate, but in terms of entertainment and general good cheer, his contribution was considerable. "Memory loss"? I don't recall any memory loss on Boyd's part - no doubt due to convenient memory loss on my part - but if there was one, I imagine it was down to the Jack Daniels , not because of any attempt to reinforce his desired view of the world. For fuck's sake.