[CrackMonkey] Usenet spelling flaming, Erik Naggum style

[Faried Nawaz]

Joakim Ziegler <joakim at helixcode.com> writes:

  Being a person who manages to stay on his good side, I find Erik's style of
  rhetoric amusing and self-consciouly over the top. Being a person who I
  suspect he would fry to a crisp within two Usenet posts, you probably think
  he's a nut.

I don't like what he does at all.  He drives people away from Lisp with his
outbursts.  It's not idiots, or spammers that increase the noise-to-signal
ratio in the Lisp newsgroups, it's his flames.  When I come across any of
his flames, I know I can safely kill the rest of the thread because there's
nothing of value left to read.

  
  (Not that I don't think he's a nut, I just think he a likable nut. As well
  as a hacker to be respected.)

I would never turn down a chance to use his code.  He's written a lot of
good code.  Of everything he says and does, that's the only thing that has
lasting value.