Posted by Steve on 01/13/07 04:45

"Max Grrl" <maxtheangel@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:120120072156258337%maxtheangel@gmail.com...
| In article <A8Vph.38$9M6.5@newsfe03.lga>, Steve <no.one@example.com>
| wrote:
|
| > | >learn to google. better yet, go to the flash site and get TFM !!!
| > |
| > | Learn to read. Better yet, learn to track, you thread failing
| > | fuckwit.
| > |
| > | http://groups.google.com/group/alt.2600/msg/fde3506df20f9fb1
| >
| > google groups[SNIPPED FOR LENGTH]
|
| You may as well give up. You're really not going to "win." He'll keep
| posting, insulting you, and whatnot. And at the end, you'll either
| obsess over him, hating his guts to the point that you go bonkers, buy
| an uzzi and stalk his crib, or you'll give in and be his friend.
|
| I chose option "B." And I've actually never regretted it. We all have
| friends that are a bit . . . different or eccentric. And Hat, as
| eccentric as he is, is actually quite intelligent (even if he sometimes
| misuses his "powers") and funny. And he WILL help you out with shit you
| need help on.
|
| He sure did me, and I was WAY more pissed than you are now. : )
|
| But FTR, if you get this worked up over Hat, then you're in for a bumpy
| ride on usenet, cause, really, Hat's just the tip of the iceberg. If
| you let Hat get you so worked up, you'll be food for every single troll
| in existence. They'll hear about you and want to fuck with you just
| cause you're "there" and an easy mark.
|
| Just a word of warning - I felt it's only right to warn you, since,
| about a year ago or so, I was JUST like you. : ) And sometimes, those
| lessons are hard to learn.

thanks max.

really there are more options. one being avoid or outright ignore him. i
assumed the people chimming in with him was in fact him for two reasons. i
have high expectations of people (intellect and behavior)...so i assumed it
would be very hard to find many like-minded people. second, i had very
little vested interest in the conversation that warranted my looking at his
headers - even still, there are many ways to sock that are not traceable via
headers anyway. i also neglected to notice that one of the cross-posted
groups was alt.2600 - notorious for the child 'geniouses' who post there
(blowing my statistical probability theory to hell). when i was that kind of
amusement, i go to alt.atheism and watch the dialog between theists and
non-theists. it mirrors alt.2600 just differning in subject matter.

i think it funny that everyone assumes i'm pissed or am/will be obsessed
with hat. i also don't understand why he would cross-post in blog fashion to
3 semi-professional where the op content had nothing to do with any of them
(which he actually still believes was ON topic...op being a bitch session
about blogs).

anyway, despite a few jibes, you've been reasonable with me and i appreciate
it - hence, this reply. btw, i've been on usenet since 1998 and i know how
it works and have seen it all. i've even seen people less intelligent and
more arrogant than hat, though it is a very rare occasion. if i let every
troll bother me, i'd be chunking my computer. i simple stay in my
semi-professional ng's and hope people like hat don't occation there. when
they do show, i play and eventually plonk once i've had my fun...and, my fun
is over.

cheers.

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