george wrote:
[ On "Bertie" ]
He, however does not suffer fools gladly, a trait that on newsgroups
is an admirable thing.

So if I do not suffer a fool gladly, I should cross-post my followups to
said fool to the alt.usenet.kooks et al groups?

If I'd known cross-posting to irrelevant groups was considered admirable by
most Usenet posters I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have stuck around for the
last two decades.

I think you miss the point on what made Bertie persona non grata to a fair
number of people who read r.a.p.