[Smaug] Smaug meeting tonight

[cerise@armory.com]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 01:02:55PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> Really, now?  All that unilateral, offlist personal-attack mail argues
> otherwise -- and your current resort to pretty much pure personal abuse
> speaks for itself.

   Too bad it wasn't personal attack stuff.  But that's OK, Rick.  I wouldn't
trust you to read much of anything and obtain meaning from it.  It seems to
be your superpower.
   Oh, and I'm not going to stoop to the level you did during the SlugLUG days
of discussing off-list traffic on the list.
 
> I could comment on the irony of _you_ making this allegation, but would
> rather focus on Smaug's business.  How about you?

   I'm sure you would like to avoid the humiliation of my linking to a number
of instances.  But I agree that your character is far too unimportant to
waste further bandwidth over.
 
> I'd say that's worth a shot.  But, once you cease pretending I'd said
> otherwise, maybe you can get around to addressing my point about the
> obvious inappropriateness for user groups' main Web presence of Drupal's
> default (and in practice universal, as far I've seen) Slashdot-style
> news/comment/blog format, and my hopes that Smaug's online presence
> doesn't devolve to that.

   Actually, you _did_ say otherwise, Rick.  Time for you to grep the archives.
   Funny, if it's so obviously inappropriate, there's no shortage of LUGs using
it.  Here's a few examples:
   http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us
   http://www.mvlug.org/
   http://www.eglug.org/
   http://www.ilug-cal.org

   Hey, better yet Rick, try googling.  Many of those sites seem to use it
to great effect.
   You've never said _why_ you believe it to be inappropriate.  You've listed
problems with CMS in general, but nothing which makes it unsuited to the task
at hand.  Either way, I promised no further replies on that topic and I'm
holding to that.  You may re-read the archives for the arguments I've already
given you.

   And besides -- what happened to your promise to walk away from the web
stuff?  I was certain that you were going to show us all that you don't
bluff.  Especially after demanding a public apology and all your huffing
and puffing when I didn't.  If I were as sensitive as you apparently are,
I'd start crying for an apology from you on that front.
   But, y'know, I can't bring myself to care the slightest bit about most
anything you have to say.  Judging by the people who have unsubscribed,
I'd say that you seem to have that effect on a lot of people, Rick.  Has it
occurred to you that someone's trying to tell you something?

-Phil/CERisE