On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>wrote:
> I have a better idea. Instead of making the world stop each time Jim
> wants to rehash
> the same arguments over and over in lengthy mails that make no sense
> because he
> knows neither linguistics nor Akkadian, or Egyptian, why not let the
> world go on its
> business while Jim learns linguistics and Afroasiatic languages. Jim
> will become more
> educated, the people in the world will be able to do something
> productive instead, and
> lots of bandwidth will be saved. Everybody wins!
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
This is one case where banning would be a good thing. Jim seems to be
encouraged every time he is not answered, and so posts more often and longer
messages, to the point that good people just get tired of the whole thing
and shut down their b-hebrew accounts. It’s the latter point that we want to
avoid.