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What the he** are "contacts"? Chaos Intellect review - and why that prog, too, seems to be up for the bin
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Posted by tightbeam
Mar 1, 2014 at 02:23 AM
Well, it’s not a total loss. I hadn’t heard of Chaos Intellect before 22111 brought it up here in the forum. I went to check it out, and have been playing with it for most of the day. It seems like an excellent replacement for Thunderbird, once I figure out how to efficiently import the many thousands of emails that have accreted to Thunderbird’s innards like cholesterol these past couple of years. (That issue led me to Aid4Mail; haven’t tried it yet, but it looks like it might do the trick.)
http://chaossoftware.com
http://www.aid4mail.com
Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 1, 2014 at 02:15 PM
WSP wrote:
A couple of years ago I first encountered 22111 (when he traveled under
>a different name) in the MyInfo forum, where he began innocuously enough
>and then gradually produced general mayhem and distress just as he has
>here; and then, tracing him backward, I discovered that he had earlier
>had a similarly unhappy relationship with the AskSam forum.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. He also engages from time to time in similar behaviour on the UltraRecall forum, DonationCoder.com, BitsduJour, etc., under a variety pseudonyms. Some of you will remember that we had the same issues with “Fredy” and “Foolness” on this forum a while back, whose posts were strikingly similar…
>But the real issue is his ad
>hominem arguments. They seem to be designed to stir up the forum, to
>provoke quarrels, and thus to make himself the center of discussion;
Exactly. This type of behaviour on the internet is now well documented (trolling, WUM) and it’s increasingly the subject of scientific study by psychologists, sociologists etc., so it’s a complex issue.
>that is why my advice is that we ignore the provocations and try to get
>back to other subjects.
You’re absolutely right. That’s the only solution. “Don’t feed the trolls,” as they say. The problem is that even saying as much can just prolong things; on the other hand, if you don’t say anything, new users or less frequent users walk straight into the trap.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Mar 1, 2014 at 02:56 PM
WUM? That’s the abbreviation for ...?
Just curious, Franz
Posted by DataMill
Mar 1, 2014 at 03:30 PM
From urbandictionary.com:
wum
It is an acronym meaning Wind-Up Merchant.
It refers to someone who posts on message boards and newsgroups with the intention to cause as much disruption as possible by goading others.
He’s a WUM, just ignore his posts.
Mike
Posted by Franz Grieser
Mar 1, 2014 at 03:41 PM
Thinks, Mike.