• Re: ESR says nobody is really transgender

    From Kevrob@21:1/5 to Alan Woodford on Fri Nov 19 20:24:17 2021
    On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 11:33:00 AM UTC-4, Alan Woodford wrote:
    On Tue, 16 May 2017 20:38:35 +0800, Philip Chee
    <phili...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2017-05-15 06:02, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
    Philip Chee <phili...@gmail.com> wrote:
    Isn't his name Rincewind?

    It's not impossible, but it is very unlikely. I've never heard of
    anyone with that name, except a fictional character by Pratchett. Nor
    does a web search find any real person by that name

    It's also very rare for anyone to have just one name. And the
    convention in this newsgroup is to give one's first and last name.

    Aahz? Graydon? netcat?

    Kevrob, in a different part of this thread....


    I have, on occasion, posted my full name. My sig has a
    first name and initial.

    --
    Kevin R

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  • From Wolffan@21:1/5 to All on Sat Nov 20 05:08:02 2021
    On 2021 Nov 19, Kevrob wrote
    (in article<a7551164-f388-433a-a30a-4b8cb1944581n@googlegroups.com>):

    On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 11:33:00 AM UTC-4, Alan Woodford wrote:
    On Tue, 16 May 2017 20:38:35 +0800, Philip Chee
    <phili...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2017-05-15 06:02, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
    Philip Chee <phili...@gmail.com> wrote:
    Isn't his name Rincewind?

    It's not impossible, but it is very unlikely. I've never heard of anyone with that name, except a fictional character by Pratchett. Nor does a web search find any real person by that name

    It's also very rare for anyone to have just one name. And the convention in this newsgroup is to give one's first and last name.

    Aahz? Graydon? netcat?
    Kevrob, in a different part of this thread....

    I have, on occasion, posted my full name. My sig has a
    first name and initial.

    Err... a four-year-old necrothread? Really? Why?

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  • From Alan Woodford@21:1/5 to Wolffan on Sat Nov 20 10:33:48 2021
    On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 05:08:02 -0500, Wolffan <akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:

    On 2021 Nov 19, Kevrob wrote
    (in article<a7551164-f388-433a-a30a-4b8cb1944581n@googlegroups.com>):

    On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 11:33:00 AM UTC-4, Alan Woodford wrote:
    On Tue, 16 May 2017 20:38:35 +0800, Philip Chee
    <phili...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On 2017-05-15 06:02, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
    Philip Chee <phili...@gmail.com> wrote:
    Isn't his name Rincewind?

    It's not impossible, but it is very unlikely. I've never heard of
    anyone with that name, except a fictional character by Pratchett. Nor >> > > > does a web search find any real person by that name

    It's also very rare for anyone to have just one name. And the
    convention in this newsgroup is to give one's first and last name.

    Aahz? Graydon? netcat?
    Kevrob, in a different part of this thread....

    I have, on occasion, posted my full name. My sig has a
    first name and initial.

    Err... a four-year-old necrothread? Really? Why?


    I think there is something wrong with the time-stream today...

    I just got an email, asking permission for someone to use a photo of me and Anne that was taken at Novacon last weekend.

    In a write-up of a TAFF trip last Millenium! :-)

    Alan Woodford
    The Greying Lensman

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  • From Peter Trei@21:1/5 to Jay on Sat Nov 20 07:10:31 2021
    On Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 10:45:10 AM UTC-4, Jay wrote:
    On 5/11/2017 09:09 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
    In article <of1p1r$9iv$1...@panix2.panix.com>,
    Scott Dorsey <klu...@panix.com> wrote:
    Dorothy J Heydt <djh...@kithrup.com> wrote:
    Gary R. Schmidt <grsc...@acm.org> wrote:
    On 11/05/2017 13:28, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
    ESR says nobody is really transgender.

    http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7524

    An average programmer and very good self-promoter, rabbiting on about >>>> something which he has no understanding.

    As useful as grease nipples on a goldfish.

    Anyone who lives in a world where the pairing of X and Y chromosomes has >>>> a 100% guaranteed end-result on how a person's mind develops *is*
    smoking Unicorn farts.

    Next he'll be saying that there's no such thing as homosexuality because >>>> XY is always going to be attracted to XX, and vice-versa.

    Um, I took a quick look at the link, and maybe my look was too
    quick, but I couldn't find any poster with the initials ESR. Who
    is the person referred to?

    Well, the blog being "esr.ibiblio.org," the guy who runs it and the only >> person posting there directly is ESR.

    So I'll never know. Thanks anyway.

    Seems to be:

    http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond

    It says something about his sense of self importance that he doesn't give
    his actual name on either the blog or his subscribestar.

    He's a big fish in a small pond, and isn't aware of his obscurity outside
    that milieu.

    Pt

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  • From Paul Dormer@21:1/5 to Peter Trei on Sat Nov 20 16:07:00 2021
    In article <977b0974-18f6-49d8-8c8b-720ef610c01an@googlegroups.com>, petertrei@gmail.com (Peter Trei) wrote:


    On Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 10:45:10 AM UTC-4, Jay wrote:


    What has woken this thread up after all this time?

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  • From Keith F. Lynch@21:1/5 to Paul Dormer on Sat Nov 20 16:37:11 2021
    Paul Dormer <prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk> wrote:
    What has woken this thread up after all this time?

    Only Kevrob knows. He'll post his answer in May of 2026.
    --
    Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
    Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.

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  • From Kerr-Mudd, John@21:1/5 to Paul Dormer on Sat Nov 20 21:57:11 2021
    On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 16:07 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
    prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul Dormer) wrote:

    In article <977b0974-18f6-49d8-8c8b-720ef610c01an@googlegroups.com>, petertrei@gmail.com (Peter Trei) wrote:


    On Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 10:45:10 AM UTC-4, Jay wrote:


    What has woken this thread up after all this time?

    Eh? /woke/ - good one!

    --
    Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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