🚀 go-pugleaf

It's really quite fascinating to me to watch all this.  I have been
unsubscribed from news.admin.* since their inception to replace
news.admin since I am not a newsadmin at this time.  But I recently
resubscribed for a couple of good reasons, just in time (apparently)
to see this entirely-too-amusing flame war start going down.

Anything said in response to SA (hm, interesting initials... :-) gets
a "you humiliate yourself" sort of response back from him.  He flames
at _great_ length, is evidently taking over large fractions of the
talk.* and soc.* hierarchies, and somehow feels duty-bound to include
news.admin.policy in every single posting he makes.

OK, so if he wants n.a.p involvement, here's an n.a.p question:

When is some enterprising newsadmin going to arm the Usenet Death
Penalty against Monsieur Ardic?

C'mon, folks: Is there some reason to say that the time has not come?
I'd do it myself, but I'm not a newsadmin at this point; while the
technical capability to implement the Penalty exists within me, lack
of access to a sys file would force me to occupy some horrendous
quantities of network bandwidth, to say nothing of beating further on
my NNTP server, which is already badly overloaded.  I'd rather not.

I don't care _what_ opinions Monsieur Ardic is trying to hand to the
rest of the planet; I'm having enough trouble trying to identify
exactly what his complaints are, much less why he's including n.a.p in
such postings, least of all why we're supposed to care.  The fact that
he is flaming _so_much_ in _so_many_ newsgroups is IMHO quite
sufficient justification.

A couple of amusing (to me) postscripts...
1. I don't even know what the initials "SPDA" stand for, but I suspect
that Monsieur Ardic would like to include me in their number for
suggesting this.
2. I will find it entertaining in the extreme to see Monsieur Ardic's
response to this suggestion, which will no doubt include some subset
of [a] a demand for my net acess to be removed (yeah, right, and the
Easter Bunny will be early this year); [b] a personal attack on me for
the suggestion of the levy of any type of penalty against him, let
alone the Usenet Death Penalty; [c] confused questions from Monsieur
Ardic as to the exact nature of the Usenet Death Penalty.
3. It's clear to me that Monsieur Ardic has confused the Usenet with
Real Life(tm).

The last is by far the most amusing; Monsieur Ardic manifestly doesn't
know what he's up against, as evidenced by his apparent belief that
further (continuous, ever more irritating) flaming will reinforce his
position, rather than weakening it.

For anyone else who doesn't know what the Usenet Death Penalty is...
well, just hang on a little while, someone will surely pipe up to
explain it properly.

--karl,
armed but not too dangerous
(not yet, anyway)