Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:59:01 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who's the troll? Message-ID: <xzp4qv891sq.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20040106200524.GA4224@online.fr> (Rahul Siddharthan's message of "Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:05:24 -0500") References: <20040106200524.GA4224@online.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> writes: > [is Bill Huey the troll?] Does anybody seriously believe this? AFAIK, this came up in a heated discussion on IRC, where someone accused him of being the troll and he replied with a sarcastic affirmative. Some people who had previously been witnesses to or victims of his abusive behaviour on the mailing lists were only to happy to take this at face value as it provided them with an excellent excuse to have him banned from the lists. For my part, while I don't particularly like Bill Huey, I have no reason to believe that he is the troll, and a couple of good reasons to believe that he isn't: Bill has never been afraid to post inflammatory material under his own name; there are good reasons to believe the troll's claim that he is a committer, while Bill is not; and the troll appeared long before the Java funding argument through which Bill alienated himself from the community. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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