From: bufalini@among.gis.psu.edu (Bruce A Bufalini)
Subject: Re: Troll's programming skills: FINIS.
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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 22:39:22 GMT

In article <robinson-300792110927@psy7.psy.utexas.edu>, robinson@psyvax.psy.utexas.edu (John G. Robinson) writes:
>Bruce, Bruce, Bruce.  These line-by-line flatulations you have been
>outputting for the past few days, your 600-plus-line posts, your
>cascade-like refusal to delete anything, even if several days old, that has

If you don't like what's several days old, then delete it.  Cascade-like
attributions don't even begin to bother me.  Look after where your .sig was
for a big cascade of attributions.

>nothing to do with the subject at hand, and your mindless OGGLing have no
>doubt gotten this thread tossed into everyone else's kill file by now.  Be

I really don't give a flying fuck if I'm in everyone's killfile or that
everyone in this group (with the exception of Brewmeister) hates me.  When are
you going to get a clue?

>that as it may, I intend to put an end to it today.

Good.  Then I guess I'll never hear from you again.  Good riddance, loser.

>You insist that you are not a computer program, while I offer
>incontrovertible evidence that you are.  To wit:
>
>1.  As I stated previously, you only post when Troll is absent, and
>vice-versa.  This indicates that you are a backup for Troll, completely
>under his control (as is shown by your sickening loyalty to him, displayed
>by absolutely no one else in this group), and at the mercy of his flicking
>your on-off switch.

I post when I have time to post.  Troll's presence or absence is irrelevant.

>2.  You never fail to post followups to -every- post in -every- thread
>which mentions your or Troll's name, regardless of whether the posts are
>positive or negative.  This proves that your actions are not under your
>control, but that of your programming.  Further you have an uncanny,
>mechanical punctuality to these followups, i.e., 5 p.m. every day on the
>dot.

I post followups when I see it fit to follow up to a post (i.e., when there
are unwarranted extrapolations made about me or when something needs to be
corrected about a post I read.  Please refer to my daily routine, as posted
earlier.  I have many other responsibilities which must also be fulfilled.
I come here after all responsibilities are completed, and even then, I am here
more to assist other users work with the system than posting to alt.flame.

Oh, BTW, it happens to be 6:37 PM right now.

>3.  Your vocabulary is very indicative of your actual state.  For example:
>
>[fill in the blank] is irrelevant.
>Initiate [fill in the blank] processes.
>Your brain is in need of repair.
>
>All this terminology is reminiscent of the talking computers of the
>low-budget sci fi flicks of the forties and fifties.  A programmer whose
>sole source of knowledge about how computers should talk and interact is
>these films would naturally make such phrases an integral part of the
>vocabulary of his creation.  Further, your "daily routine" is a perfect
>example of a computer trying to explain what a human does during the day,
>while displaying the punctuality and monotony inherent in a computer.

No, my daily routine, as posted earlier, contains the precise actions I carry
out every day.  Perhaps you would like to come here and prove your statements.

>4.  Your posts conform to a regimen of strictly coded subroutines.  To
>summarize:
>
>sub1: The "I know you are, but what am I?" subroutine.  Predictable from a
>grade-school educated programmer.
>
>sub2: Random sentence generation subroutine.  This is where most of the
>babble, non sequiturs and OGGLEs originate.
>
>sub3: Simple denial subroutine.  This one gets the most calls.
>
>There may be others; unfortunately, there is no logic subroutine, nor is
>there a wit subroutine.  Might I suggest these in any future versions of
>the program.

Your opinions regarding subroutines are irrelevant.  I cordially say fuck off
to you.

>Bruce, if you are a human being, you will have more sense than to post a
>follow-up to this thread, as I am preparing to add it to my kill file, as
>well.  (I have no doubt, however, that you will follow up, further proving

No, I will follow up further proving my disproving of your number 2 above.

>my point (2) above.)  If you are human, you will flame me and others in a
>manner befitting a human.

John, I see nothing but a pile of ashes before me.  Apparently Bruce has nuked
you and all of your misinformed followers, and it now seems as if you are all
a large pile of ashes.

>I only wish that Troll would come back and turn you off again.  That is,
>after all, the only thing he's good for.

No, your only wish in life is to have a car that lasts longer than 45,000
miles.  Better take lessons in oil-changing.  You should also buy a Honda.

Here's your requested cascade of attributions:

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