[Future Useless Eater]

I Thought some of you would also be interested in these questions-to-management.

And Roscoe, were you EVEN AWARE that freepers had published
your posting-pattern
published for the purposes of criticizing you?

General questions to all of you,

Do you agree some people could find their posting-patterns put on public display
to be intimidating, or have a chilling effect on them?

Do you agree this sometimes seems to be done to silence their competition?

Do you agree this could be seen as abusive?

or wasteful of F.R.'s CPU time or bandwidth?

[William Terrell]

Did you neglect to mention that I posted my own chart on the same thread that I posted the other?

[tpaine]

Posted by FL_engineer to cinFLA; Roscoe; robertpaulsen; tpaine
On General Interest (Chat) ^
05/10/2004 11:04:50 AM PDT #20 of 28 ^

I Thought some of you would also be interested in these questions-to-management.
And Roscoe, were you EVEN AWARE that freepers had published your posting-pattern published for the purposes of criticizing you?

Yep, both roscoe & cinfla were well aware of those posts, as I pinged both of them while we were having those discussions..
-- As you must be aware, FL_engineer, -- seeing you based this thread on them.

General questions to all of you, Do you agree some people could find their posting-patterns put on public display to be intimidating, or have a chilling effect on them?

Of course it could, if said posting patterns revealed that they were only posting during business hours, for instance.. Leads one to wonder, at least, - who is paying for their chit-chat habits..

-- I suspect that in many such cases, the public is paying.
Just a hunch of course, based on the fact that most of these 9 to 5 types support bureaucratic institutions .

Do you agree this sometimes seems to be done to silence their competition? Do you agree this could be seen as abusive?

I see it as a form of whistle blowing on cheating public servants, -- But I could be wrong, of course.

or wasteful of F.R.'s CPU time or bandwidth?

Thats what FR is all about, imo, exposing government cheating, fraud & corruption.. You object?

[robertpaulsen]

Maybe someone should ask William Terrell why he did it and what he hoped to gain by doing it.

Then we could all have a good laugh at his answer because, given the targets, I believe it was his intent to be intimidating, to have a chilling effect, and to silence the competition.

This could be seen as abusive and wasteful of F.R.'s CPU time or bandwidth, but that's not for me to decide. I never thought to report it as such. .