[ot/2] too many apologies in the thread...

On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 19:37:47 -0600, Les Cargill
<lcargill99@comcast.com> wrote:

>robert bristow-johnson wrote:
>> On Friday, March 10, 2017 at 1:29:16 AM UTC-5, b...@everett wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I have been following this newsgroup since around 1992 I think it was
>>> and I don't remember seeing ANY fights or fires here !  Did I miss
>>> something ?
>>
>> you must have.
>>
>> i've been in a periodic fight regarding the inherent periodicity of
> > the Discrete Fourier Transform.  (and i have been sorta accurately
> > labeled a Nazi regarding it.  i'm more of a fundamentalist zealot;
> > those who deny the inherent periodicity of the DFT should be burned
> > to the stake as heretics.  there can be only one true gospel of the
> > FFT here.)
>>
>
>I'd really think a more ... Hindu metaphor to be more appropriate. :)
>
>> there was a guy named zxform, there was E. Robert Tisdale, there was
> > our late friend Vlad, who hosted the 2nd comp.dsp conference.  and
> > there have been a few trolls.  and i s'pose i am not the most
> > pacifist on USENET, despite my religious tradition.
>>
>>
>> r b-j
>>


Well, maybe all that fighting and byting was masked and buried in the
noise here.  This group seems to have a pretty darn high signal to
noise ratio, luckily.

boB