RE: [microsound] who is nn?

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 8:21 PM -0500 11/4/02, Paulo Mouat wrote:

>That's a partial judgment.  What name(s) did McCartney assume =cw4t7abs
>were using?  Was it at all possible to match them?

I think at that time there weren't all that many SuperCollider users, 
and James was assuming that he'd recognize the identity of his 
customers. It wasn't a big deal to him, just a bemused observation 
that this entity might have been using an unlicensed copy.

>That's arguable.  Those 'worthier' individuals should have been perhaps
>more tolerant and less anal.  Agreed, it sometimes got out of hand, but
>I didn't see any one instance where this wasn't caused by the outrage of
>other people and the chain reaction that ensued.

Let me put it another way: There was a period of time on the Max list 
when antiorp (or whatever you want to call it) had become such an 
annoyance that a number of people whose participation on the list I 
valued began to unsubscribe. While there may have been, as you 
suggest, some instances where the reactions were more extreme than 
the provocations, I found that overall the problem was with antiorp 
doing its little "nyah, nyah, nyah ... you're a capitalist swine" 
routine ad nauseam. At one point I actually did an analysis of the 
messages and found that antiorp's taunts grossly outweighed the 
reactions. I don't remember now exactly what method I used, but I 
believe it was a combination of the number of messages plus the 
number of ascii characters filling up my mailbox.

For a while at the beginning I found it amusing, but eventually I was 
one of those who voted to banish antiorp from the list. That was a 
hard pill for me to swallow, since I believe in open and unmoderated 
discussion, but sometimes the cat pisses behind the couch just one 
time too many times, and you have to put it to sleep.
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