Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?

[Cthun]

On 10/03/2011 5:56 PM, Susan Calvin wrote:
> To everyone in these newsgroups: the troll that has plagued you for some
> time now is David J. Tholen. Tholen is a notorious Usenet kook who has
> won KOTM once (March 1998) and Clueless Newbie of the Month *twice* (in
> February 2003 as himself -- despite being on usenet for at *least* five
> years by that point -- and again in April 2009 as "Seamus MacRae" as an
> ELEVEN year Usenet veteran).

What does your information about the tholenbot that invaded from 
comp.os.os2.advocacy have to do with Lisp, Calvin?

> Tholen has been active under a wide variety of aliases for over a dozen
> years and is recognizable by a distinct pattern of OCD-like ritualized
> responses once under attack. He has a few such patterns, one of which is
> the "what does X have to do with<newsgroup topic>/classic
> unsubstantiated and erroneous claim" most closely associated with his
> real-world identity. Then there's the "[insult deleted]"/"none of the
> nasty things" pattern, and others.

What does your information about the tholenbot that invaded from 
comp.os.os2.advocacy have to do with Lisp, Calvin?

> Tholen is not actually a reply-bot, but he might as well be one. The only
> recourse with Tholen is your killfile. If you want Tholen to shut up, do
> not reply to Tholen.

What does your information about the tholenbot that invaded from 
comp.os.os2.advocacy have to do with Lisp, Calvin?

> This will be my only post to this thread.

Famous Last Words.