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William Terrell to FL_engineer: If you have dark suspicions of the many faces of MrLeRoy, then don't you request that I run charts of those names you think are reincarnations of him? Will be happy to email them to you.

Well, that's rather inconsistent of you, wouldn't you agree?

According to all available evidence, you openly posted cinFLA's posting patterns in this post in which you -- in response to tdadams' assertion that "[S/he] is a certifiable nutcase. Medically, clinically insane" -- countered:

I don't think he (or she) is that bad. His (her) posting patterns are interesting, from my viewpoint, though.

(cinFLA was not pinged to the post, which runs afoul of commonly accepted FR etiquette.)

The next morning, P_A_I responded to your post of cinFLA's posting patterns thusly:

Seems to be a sort of '9 to 5' posting pattern, which seems to be typical of certain overly conformist types around here. Perhaps its indicative of the bureaucratic mind at work.

The following morning, in response to the above-noted P_A_I post, you posted another Freeper's chart (once again, without his being pinged), with this note:

You were interested in Roscoe.

This silently suggests that P_A_I had somehow requested Roscoe's chart. Why? Could it be that P_A_I sought support for his postulate about the posting patterns of "the overly conformist types around here," as Roscoe is occasionally viewed as being? It could indeed be, but there is no record of P_A_I's "interest" in Roscoe's chart in the thread. Apparently, P_A_I's request was through either email or FReepmail; nevertheless, Roscoe's posting patterns were provided by you in the thread. You didn't seem to think twice about whether you should email P_A_I.

To all but the most vindictive OR fretfully dense readers, it is clear that you either believe -- or wish others to believe -- that the posting patterns are some sort of indication of one's mental health or lack of same. At the very least, such murmurings are as irritating as when astrology buffs tell you they know more about you then you know about yourself based on your date of birth.

Your smarmy, disingenuous response to FL_engineer -- "If the information is useless, why do you worry about it? Paranoia ill becomes you, my friend, especially ill thought out paranoia" -- begs more questions in response: If you are truly agreeing that the information is 'useless,' why did you write the program that performs the task and refer to the posted results as "interesting, from my viewpoint"? If you discovered that an ideological opponent was making inferences about your character to potentially hundreds of thousands of people using information that you didn't have access to, wouldn't that be a reason to distrustful -- NOT "paranoid" (Definition #2)?

Well, that's rather inconsistent of you, wouldn't you agree?

No. I had already decided not to post them any more. In fact, you'll notice that I haven't posted any more.

This silently suggests that P_A_I had somehow requested Roscoe's chart.

He did, via FRmail. As I said I'm not posting any more.

. . .that the posting patterns are some sort of indication of one's mental health or lack of same.

Nothing to do with mental health. Just patterns. Like my own, which I also posted. Did you see that? It was on the same thread.

If you are truly agreeing that the information is 'useless,' why did you write the program that performs the task and refer to the posted results as "interesting, from my viewpoint"?

I refered to that poster's claim that the info was useless. It was not my claim. I still think the info arranged visually on those chart is interesting. Sorry you don't like it. I wrote the program because I had the idea and I like to program.

Anyone has access to the information I used. If someone else had written a program like that and posted mine (as I did on myself) I would think it was amusing and interesting to see my posting patterns in that way.

Thanks for your concerns, though, and letting me address them.