Re: End of my subcription to REC.MUSIC.CLASSICAL.RECORDINGS

In article <vhns5a$1ll$1@hope.eyrie.org>,
Todd M. McComb <mccomb@medieval.org> wrote:

It's really something wrong about the internet that one person can
clear a longstanding "room" full of people like this.

And maybe I should add regarding the general figure of the "belligerent
ignoramus" -- not only here, but many others in many places, including
of course politicians... -- that it's hardly a new personality type
or idea.  The effectiveness of this sort of strategy, i.e. just
come in & be as divisive as possible, leading to taking over, is
clearly linked to the existence of the internet (& probably especially
the moment-to-moment ubiquity of cellphones).  There's just something
different about buttonholing people on the internet....  Anyway,
as a society, we really need to figure this out, unless we want
mere divisiveness to continue morphing into some kind of
super-strategy....