Comment by LastTrain
2 months ago
> They sent thoughtless, form-letter thank you emails to 157 people. That makes me less sympathetic to the vitriol these guys are getting not more ... > Heck Rob Pike did this himself back in the day on Usenet with Mark V. Shaney ... > And yes this is annoying to get this kind of email no matter who it's from ...
Pretty sure Rob Pike doesn't react this way to every article of spam he receives, so maybe the issue isn't really about spam, huh? More of an existential crisis: I helped build this thing that doesn't seem to be an agent of good. It's an extreme & emotional reaction but it isn't very hard to understand.
You're misreading my comment. I understand Rob Pike's reaction (which is against the general state of affairs, not those three individuals). I explicitly said it makes sense to me. I'm reacting to @crawshaw specifically listing out the names of people.