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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:12622 comp.os.386bsd.misc:960 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!vixie!efficacy!vixie From: vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Clustering - red hot on UNIX [ was Re: Excuse me? ] Date: 11 Sep 93 17:48:09 Organization: Vixie Enterprises Lines: 40 Message-ID: <VIXIE.93Sep11174809@gw.home.vix.com> References: <JKH.93Sep9212249@whisker.lotus.ie> <jmonroyCD4qtC.22n@netcom.com> <CD7KzA.HGy@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: gw.home.vix.com In-reply-to: joe@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk's message of Sat, 11 Sep 1993 21:28:21 GMT I'd like to offer an observation on the Jesus Monroy phenomena visible here. Many of you have wondered how this obviously clue-impaired individual could possibly post article after article in gleeful defiance of the universal scorn and disgust people feel for him. "Is he witless or merely clueless," I hear you asking. Surely the combination of incorrect technical information, inability to form sentences or spell words correctly, and total disregard for the reactions of others calls for some kind of explaination. This just isn't normal behaviour. To fully understand the phenomena you have to have been reading Usenet more or less full time for 10 years or more. In my time I have seen the Jesus Monroy phenomena repeated many times -- by different people, in different newsgroups, but every other detail is the same. My correlation of all these instances tells me that some people are just like this, and they are as much like this in real life as they are in the smallish slice of them we see in this media. Brian Reid once christened one of them the "usenet bag lady", not knowing that the instance he labelled was only one and the pattern was much larger. Jesus and the others like him are the same people who are regularly abducted by aliens, who fight a never-ending battle against conspiracies everywhere, who are watched by the IRS, the FBI, their employers, their families, and by little green men from Alpha Centauri. They'll hand you their fliers in the local supermarket parking lot, if only you'll stop and chat with them. But please don't waste bandwidth and the rest of our time by paying any attention to them. They will not go away under any circumstances, but the rest of us have it in our power to make them much louder and then have to sit through more of their tripe if we will only pay attention to them. None of us has the ability to make the situation better, but any one of us can make it worse. Practice ignorance. Ignore them and they will make less noise. -- Paul Vixie Redwood City, CA <paul@vix.com> decwrl!vixie!paul