• Re: Dave Royal is Alan Baker and he lives on Mount Stupid

    From Peter Piper@21:1/5 to Wally J on Mon Jan 1 17:40:56 2024
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    Wally J wrote:

    This is my _last_ post to "Dave Royal" as he will be plonked (along with
    his other nym of Alan Baker and all the other Alan Baker nyms out there).

    Early January like clockwork, the autist formerly known as Arlen will
    start claiming that several long-standing regulars in some newsgroup are
    all one and the same person. My guess is that Arlen's psychiatrist goes
    on vacation and his/her locum tenens changes Arlen's meds.

    Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.mobile.ipad
    Followup-To: comp.mobile.ipad,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    Introducing a large cross-post without warning readers in the body is a violation of netiquette and the sign of a troll. Adding a followup-to
    without warning readers in the body is a violation of netiquette and the
    sign of a troll.


    Alan posted the same reply twice:

    Newsgroups: comp.mobile.ipad,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    Posting the same reply twice, falling for the cross-post, and falling
    for the followup-to, are all signs of being the troll's plaything.

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  • From Alan@21:1/5 to Peter Piper on Mon Jan 1 11:44:26 2024
    On 2024-01-01 09:40, Peter Piper wrote:
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    Wally J wrote:

    This is my _last_ post to "Dave Royal" as he will be plonked (along with
    his other nym of Alan Baker and all the other Alan Baker nyms out there).

    Early January like clockwork, the autist formerly known as Arlen will
    start claiming that several long-standing regulars in some newsgroup are
    all one and the same person. My guess is that Arlen's psychiatrist goes
    on vacation and his/her locum tenens changes Arlen's meds.

    Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.mobile.ipad
    Followup-To: comp.mobile.ipad,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    Introducing a large cross-post without warning readers in the body is a violation of netiquette and the sign of a troll. Adding a followup-to
    without warning readers in the body is a violation of netiquette and the
    sign of a troll.


    Alan posted the same reply twice:

    Newsgroups: comp.mobile.ipad,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy

    Posting the same reply twice, falling for the cross-post, and falling
    for the followup-to, are all signs of being the troll's plaything.


    And "tsk, tsk"ing someone else's posting is a sign of what?

    😉

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