mark weston wrote:
For the last couple of days there has been loads of winging regarding format etc etc brackets and stuff on Email... There are some really sound and decent people on this list. This aint the first time some people wish to steam in to Rob Stringer. He has provided and kept up a FTP Server and most of us have downloaded something from him .We have found music and video which for some people it would of been the first time they had seen or heard this stuff. So come on there is far more shit going on in the world than moaning about formatting Emails. For Fucks sake get real its only a fucking Email........... It aint gonna jump out of the PC and stick one on on ya......
Mark, Let's not fool ourselves; Mr. Stringer runs his ftp site for his own benefit. Any benefits to anyone else are merely the cost of him getting what he wants. He's made that clear more than once. Anyone who cares to can easily turn up everything on his ftp site on their own in other venues; he provides mere convenience, rather than a priceless boon to the KLF fan community. Can we please stop kissing his ass over that? He (as you know) has been the center of sort of thing on more than one list. At this point, given the sheer number of long-term users he's clearly annoying on multiple lists, I'd suggest that perhaps the problem is him, rather than everyone else. Well-meaning people defending him only leads to more questionable behaviour on his part. As to the rest of your post, it can just as easily be turned around and applied to Mr, Stringer. Since he annoys a non-trivial fraction of the list by the manner of his posts; perhaps he should be the one to change, and follow the (very) minimal standards of netiquette we like around here. Chris (not for a minute believing that Mr. Stringer really thought "more brackets will be better"; he was deliberately being a jerk, and he knew it) --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Mail Server Anti-Virus]