Re: No More Pearls Before Swine

On 1/30/25 7:15 AM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 10:31:10 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:
 

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Hmm.. Well, you can't expect anything from the Sheep. You've not been
using Usenet the right way. You're downplaying its kill file feature.
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 A kill file should not ever be necessary.
 I just quit a LUG (Linux Users Group) recently.  Even though there were
participants from all over the US the majority of the discussions were
of the "distro lackey" variety.  No one was actually _using_ Linux for
anything.
 The group was moribund in the extreme, but then, quite suddenly, terrific
excitement erupted over... guess what... AI.
 Yes, it was stupid AI that finally aroused these comatose lackeys and that's
when I pulled the plug.  Only brain-dead idiots will find anything of interest
in AI.
 If that group and this group truly represent GNU/Linux users then the free (as
in freedom not beer) software movement is in deep trouble.
 We need to pull people from the ridiculous web forums onto this group.
A few dozen or a few hundred serious and dedicated individuals will quickly
drown out the useless idiots.
 

I think you're (again) confusing the usenet with a classroom. The classroom stays with you. Inside your home. Unless you take courses or formally register as a student in a nice university. Some like-minded guys are there.
Usenet is a lounge. For Linux matters it is powerful enough for communicating its detail as opposed to in physics forum where it utterly lacks the tools cause those forums are packed with "engineers." They don't have such need. They're cook-book creatures. So the needed tools never developed in them.
So at least you have the element of communicating Linux matters with others. The Linux commands don't make use of an nxn matrix or an expression that requires 6 lines to be written. But that's the end of it. The rest involves others and is of course out of your control cause it's not a classroom where you can complain and get any result. These "others" are quite often some sick people. For that you _only_ have the kill file feature.