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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Steve Hayes Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ... Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 12:32:35 +0200 Organization: Khanya Publications Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: hayesstw@yahoo.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2024 12:28:05 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="859359d70bf8c46343de8ed48b95aa70"; logging-data="3526424"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/KcIAIZEPKq5Oy0EGkm3fHhZpsg7p/LxM=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:E+8aFXfy1Rk3Z8rqdANPnpRsmrw= X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652 Bytes: 2450 On Fri, 26 Jul 2024 08:51:31 -0000 (UTC), Antonio Marques wrote: >Steve Hayes wrote: >> In his own field he had some useful information, but outside his field >> he could be very dogmatic about things that he simply got wrong. >> > >People desperately tried to jump on every unqualified statement of his for >some interpretation that would make him 'wrong'. What almost everyone does >is raise an objection to that course of action, but he consistently chose >to ignore that path, which in a way makes the other feel not acknowledged >as an interlocutor. That caused a huge amount of resentment, but who is to >blame? The answer depends on the degree of good faith on the part of those >trying to 'correct' him. In my experience it was the other way round. He would pronounce that something someone else had said was wrong, when it wasn't and continue to insist on it even when several people had produced evbidence that it was true. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk