Following the weekly quote of May 20, I received the following response from Rudy aka r937, to which I replied. I rest my case.

Further on this matter see Note on the Real Blooming Idiot, When “Fowl” is All They’ve Got, forthcoming at tdan.com, and The Bliss of Ignorance, forthcoming at dbazine.com)

From: r937 (Rudy) 

To: Editor

Date: 20 May 2005

on your home page of may 20, 2005, you attribute two quotes to me

the first, attributed to me at tek-tips.com, was not posted at tek-tips.com

the second, attributed to me at forums.devshed.com, was not posted at forums.devshed.com

your research is pretty sloppy

after you lambasted me for my "north-american" education, i would have thought you to show a little bit more effort in your fact checking

or did your european education not teach you a respect for accuracy?

tsk, tsk

From: Fabian Pascal

To: Rudy

You're right about [the first] one. Corrected: http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/archive/2005/01/12/3968.aspx

But not about [the second] one: http://forums.devshed.com/t104037/s.html. That's where I found the stuff; maybe they were cross-posted.

What your North-American education did not teach you is what's relevant and what's not. I was accurate as to what counts, but I understand why you would want to distract from it.

My research is not sloppy where it counts, but your knowledge is. You seem so focused on marginals, but that's only because you don't get much of the substance.

Ed. Note:  I and Rudy seem to have different concepts of research. His is the location of posts, mine is on technical substance. The reader should ponder the significance.

Posted 6/3/05