From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   >> OK, what is it he does without realising it, and how did you know about   
   >> it if he didn't?   
   >   
   >   Sorry, but that's for him (and perhaps for you?) to find out. I'm not   
   > going to spoil it.   
      
   Hi Richmond,   
      
   Hi Richmond,   
      
   What is happening here with Frank is not a technical discussion at all.   
   It is a rhetorical game. Frank is deliberately withholding his supposed   
   "gotcha" so he can posture as the clever one in the room.   
      
   It's Frank's game, but that is not how reasonable people behave when they   
   actually have a technical point they wish to discuss openly & honestly.   
      
   Any reasonable participant would ask exactly what you asked:   
         "OK, what is it he does without realising it,   
          and how did you know about it if he did not?"   
      
   And notice what happened next, he dodged the question again.   
          Dodging is the tell.   
      
   If he had honest motives on a technical argument, he would simply state it.   
   But Frank is inherently a dishonest person to the core as we can see here.   
      
   Instead of answering your repeated open and honest questions, Frank repeats   
   the same vague accusation, refuses to explain it, and hides behind a   
   childish "I will not spoil it" conspiracy-theme "only I know it" routine.   
      
   That is not analysis, it is performance.   
      
   This is his signature Usenet move:   
   a. Imply he knows something secret   
   b. Refuse to say what it is   
   c. Hope the audience fills in the blanks   
   d. Then pop back in later claiming victory because he gets to   
      define the riddle any way that he feels like it, after the fact   
      
   It is a waste of everyone's time.   
   It's what trolls do.   
      
   Meanwhile, the rest of us are openly discussing the actual technical   
   details honestly. My setup has been explained clearly and repeatedly:   
      
   a. The system contacts provider on my phone is empty by design.   
   b. I use a sandboxed contacts app with its own private database.   
   c. I do not sync contacts to Google or any cloud service.   
   d. I invited him, repeatedly, to point out a specific technical   
      inconsistency, and I expressed an open willingness to discuss it.   
      
   I didn't respond to his ever-present incessant personal attacks.   
      
   He responded with:   
   a. No specifics   
   b. No mechanism   
   c. No evidence   
   d. No technical content   
   e. Just a smug "I know something you do not" posture   
      
   That is not a debate. It is just trolling.   
      
   And for the record, his veiled hint about "putting email addresses on the   
   cloud" does not even land. I do not use a mail client on my phone at all.   
   At my age, I simply cannot read email comfortably on a small screen. If I   
   did, I would use a privacy respecting FOSS client like FairEmail, but that   
   is irrelevant to this discussion.   
      
   The same goes for me making & receiving phone calls using the privacy-aware   
   contacts app through my federally & state-regulated carrier over the air.   
      
   The bottom line is simple, he cannot point to any inconsistency because   
   there is not one. So instead he is playing riddles to inflate his ego.   
   --   
   People who have no value love to play silly riddle games with others   
   because they're desperate to artificially inflate their own value.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)