Peter wrote:

I've come to the conclusion that Jim is unable to see things from another's viewpoint, and so regards it a bad trade to spend 30 seconds of his own time to save man-hours of wasted effort by his readers.

I'm torn between this "social retardation" explanation and the feeling that Jim is obnoxious simply to get attention. In either case, his social skills certainly are INCHOATE (look it up, Jim). I used to be pissed off by the guy. Now, I mostly just feel pity for him.

The result, of course, is that he becomes progressively less effective at communication, as more and more people tune him out due to the low value of his postings.

Yup, I don't have a kill fill, per se, but I've come to expect a very low level of Cypherpunk relevance from Jim's random URLs as well as extremely poor analytical skills when he does write something. Jim either says too little or way to much--and it's usually garbage. I delete 95% of his stuff without reading it. S a n d y _____________________________________________________________ If the law of gravity is fundamental, why can’t it be changed by Constitutional amendment since it’s the primary authority? W W \*\ /*/ The Road Kill Group |*| |*| /*////|\\\\*\ |\- (|||||||||||||\((x)\ -======-------------||---:> (|||||||||||||/((x)/ \*\\\\|////*/ |/- |*| |*| /*/ \*\ M M