Re: rec.games.pbm Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

From: Brandon Blackmoor <bblackmoor@spamcop.net>

Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 14:56:09 +0000

Greg Lindahl wrote:
>
> stop stealing my FAQ.

First, it's not your FAQ -- it's the rec.games.pbm FAQ.

Second, it's not your *version* of the rec.games.pbm FAQ.
Your version of the rec.games.pbm FAQ stopped getting updated a year
ago. You never added the various errata posted to this group over the
past year, and your version of the rec.games.pbm FAQ still includes
obsolete information like this:

> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PBMDesign
 > leads you to an mailing list about game design.

(i.e., a YahooGroup which hasn't had any messages on it in a year or so.)

You did a great job keeping the FAQ updated for a very long time, and
the two or three people who still read this newsgroup (myself included)
are grateful for that. But you can't complain that someone else picks up
the torch a full year after you dropped it. Well, you can, but it
undermines any respect that might otherwise be justly owed to you.

> You don't seem to even read this newsgroup.

As far as I can tell, there's almost no one who reads this newsgroup,
and even fewer who post to it. Your posts and my posts account for what,
99% of the non-spam traffic?

I don't usually respond to *you* anymore, because your posts all seem to
be written by a petulant 14-year-old who never has anything productive
to say and whose only contribution in the past year has been to act
indignant whenever anyone else has the effrontery to post here. I don't
see the point of indulging you, so I generally don't bother to respond
to your catty comments and whining.

I made an exception this time, primarily to make it public that you
*are* owed a debt of gratitude for managing the rec.games.pbm FAQ for as
long as you did, and to explain to the two or three other people who
still read this newsgroup why that torch has been picked up by another.

Personally, I would very much like for us to bury the hatchet you seem
intent on carrying around. We have clearly worked toward similar
purposes, and have similar goals. I think we, and the community at
large, would benefit from working *together*. But I don't hold out any
hope that this will actually come to pass. Somehow, my heart will go on.

--
bblackmoor
2007-06-16

References

Re: rec.games.pbm Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Greg Lindahl <greg.lindahl@gmail.com>
Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:04:11 +0000
rec.games.pbm Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Brandon Blackmoor <bblackmoor@spamcop.net>
Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:55:07 +0000

Referenced By

Re: rec.games.pbm Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Greg Lindahl <greg.lindahl@gmail.com>
Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:04:11 +0000
rec.games.pbm Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Brandon Blackmoor <bblackmoor@spamcop.net>
Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:55:07 +0000