Just like the FAA and Southwest Airlines

On Sep 12, 3:09*pm, Lou wrote:

Jim I'm not going to praise Bertie whatsoever, but I have
noticed with all the Bertie bashing that has taken place, he
(or she) has started to contribute actual information more and more.
Weather it's from peer pressure or just tired of swallowing his
own crap, he is contributing, however after reading this I'll bet he
reverts.

Bertie answers queries like the one about the airliner that landed
short because of fuel starvation.

From the depth of the answers he's at home with the theory and
practice of 'heavies'

From my knowledge of him he treats the curious well answering their
questions.

He, however does not suffer fools gladly, a trait that on newsgroups
is an admirable thing.

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.

"george" wrote

From my knowledge of him he treats the curious well answering their
questions.

He, however does not suffer fools gladly, a trait that on newsgroups
is an admirable thing.

How he went about "not suffering fools gladly" in all the wrong ways, when
he started cross posting to all the kook groups. The senseless jabs were
bad enough, but if he had stopped there, he would have been no worse or
better than many others. He didn't stop there, though.

There can be no doubt as to the damage he has done, and there can be no
justifying his actions by the good contributions he has made.

A person that sets a hotel on fire, then stops on the way home to help
someone change a flat on the side of the road would still be arrested for
arson, if he was caught.

Same thing here.

No free pass for evil deeds, in my opinion.
--
Jim in NC