Phil Gyford

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Phil Gyford has written four articles:

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Phil Gyford has posted 773 annotations/comments since 27 December 2002.

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About Banned user

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Hhomeboy sent me an email requesting that all comments referring to his "real life" identity be deleted, coming close to threatening legal action if this didn't happen. While I doubt there is any legal basis for this I have complied; life's too short.

Anyone desperate to deduce Hhomeboy's identity only has to enter the domain name from the email address on one of his annotations into a whois server such as this: http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/…

I'm now closing comments on this thread so we can move on.

About Banned user

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Thanks for the support everyone. Unless there are further developments, I'd like to move on and get back to the diary. Cheers!

About John Maitland (2nd Earl of Lauderdale)

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"2nd Earl of Lauderdale, cr. Duke 1672 (1616-82)" according to the L&M Companion. during the period of the diary he was Secretary for Scottish Affairs.

About Banned user

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Yes, it's always a shame when one person spoils a site for everyone else.

For the record, the banning of Hhomeboy extends to his 'real world' identity -- I've just deleted a comment from him too.

About Banned user

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No worries Todd. To be honest, I'd have been less likely to ban Hhomeboy if anyone had spoken up in his favour at any point. But no one has defended him here or via personal email to me, either before or since he was belatedly given one last chance several weeks ago. It's too late now.

Yes, he posted valuable information that it will be a shame to lose. But information isn't everything; being able to interact and cooperate with a group of others is a useful skill.

About Annotation length and errors

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Thanks for the comments everyone, and for giving me the ability to laugh at Hhomeboy, rather than attempt to respond to his repetitious lists. I'm glad people seem to be enjoying the site otherwise.

Now, to get back to the original point. I only really wanted to know if anyone wanted a discussion group in addition to the current annotations (which should be brief). That's it. Thanks.

About Annotation length and errors

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Well I'd prefer to go with what everyone wants, but it's almost impossible to tell. Those who post annotations and comments are more likely to prefer spending more time reading annotations.

About Annotation length and errors

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I'm not sure what you mean vincent... When you click Post the page changes back to the full diary entry page.

Emilio... the annotations have *always* been for footnotes, and not dicussion; hence the name annotations, rather than comments, forum, discussion, etc. Obviously some discussion is necessary to work out confusions and ambiguities.

I'm assuming in all this that the vast majority of readers, ie, those that never post annotations, would prefer "just the facts" rather than reading long discursive posts.