[SpamCop-List] Re: I am getting more messages from this .pk server about listserver messages I can do nothing about.

[Geoffrey Hyde]

"Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid> wrote in message 
news:dnd9si$grc$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> Geoffrey Hyde wrote:
>
>> QED, mate.
>
> Now that we've finished discussing the issue which initiated this
> thread, let me remark on your usage of Q.E.D. in a discussion or debate
> or disagreement of this nature -- because I also disagree with your
> usage of that term or abbreviation, which has appeared a number of times
> lately.

Gee mate, I didn't think you'd taken to nitpicking.  But if you insist, go 
right ahead.

> quod erat demonstrandum means, at the bottom of the mathematical proof,
> that the 'which was to be demonstrated' has, in fact, been demonstrated.

How about Qibbled with, Exhaustively discussed, and Dismissed?  ;-)  Of 
course, that leaves some of the letters out but abbreviations are rife on 
the internet nowadays.

> In the course of a discussion or 'debate', throwing a premature qed into
> the conversation isn't at all effective in the debate process.  It falls
> quite flat, even in implying that the user is comfortable throwing
> around Latin phrases or their abbreviations.

I could say that I've demonstrably argued that it is spam I'm dealing with, 
and that I'm trying to end my demonstration of what is spam about it, with 
you.

> Especially when it doesn't come at the 'conclusion' of some kind of
> irrefutable evidence.  Then it is just so much junk cluttering up the
> corners like a dust bunny.

Per aspera ad astra.  And yes, I looked it up so I know what it means.

If I want further discussion from you, mate, I'll give it to you.  :-)


Cheers ...

Geoffrey Hyde