Re: OMLET v4.1: The Right Tool For That Monitoring Job http://www.omlet.org

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:54:14 -0700
Message-ID: <1094000112.295526@yasure>

Joel Garry wrote:

> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1093913422.927364_at_yasure>...
>

>>David Fitzjarrell wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"omletv4" <notrolls_at_notrolls.omlet.org.notrolls> wrote in message news:<eda65079845f15c1b91edbd763f2454f_at_localhost.talkaboutdatabases.com>...
>>>
>>>
>>>>Dear DBA,
>>>>
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>>>>native and
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>Amjad Daoud
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>>>
>>>
>>>The link to omlet.jar is no longer blind, but the file on the other
>>>end is useless (88 bytes).  So, it does appear Amjad Daoud is offering
>>>nohting.
>>>
>>>David Fitzjarrell
>>
>>Except spam which is what I've been saying for a long time.
>>
>>Does anyone truly believe there is a company behind his trash?
>>Would any company intentionally post obscenities in public?
>>Would any company insult its prospective customers?
>>Would any company allow someone like him to represent it in public?
>>I think not. He is seemingly mentally ill.

>
>
> That's an interesting thought, Daniel. [Ignoring the epistemology of
> mental illness in cyberspace, maybe Don B. could comment on that :-] I
> think his actions can be explained without going quite so far, and
> without positing there not being an actual company. In a, er,
> nutshell, it could be that he simply tried to put a product together
> and represent himself as a company, and then got extremely frustrated
> at the realities involved, particularly the dichotomy between the
> black-and-white world of coding versus the indeterminate and
> contradictory world of marketing, and lashed out.
>
> On the other hand, he might just be an arrogant asshole.
>
> jg
> --
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Might?

Seriously though ... I think what he has done goes far beyond just having an attitude problem. If one assumes he is more than 14 years old his behaviour is so far from being normal as to be clinically significant. My associate who examined his postings is an MD PhD in clinical psychiatry and he thinks Amjad clearly is in need of intervention. Perhaps the reason he is no longer with a "real" company is that he was escorted to the door.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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