On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 07:24:49PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > it is not up to you to tell me HOW i may say something. > > i'll use whatever words i feel are necessary to get my point across. if you > don't like some of the words that i choose to employ, then tough luck - get a life.
Craig, It is not up to Thomas alone to tell you how to say something, but the Debian development as a community may choose to set certain societal norms. And speaking in decently and civilly can be one of them. Thomas asked the mailing list as a whole if they thought your style of discourse was acceptable. A number of responsible have responded that they thought it was not acceptable. I will join that number. I will also say this; when you use that kind of language, your will fail to get your point across. When I saw your that e-mail full of curse words and general unpleasantness, I simply decided to delete without bothering to read it any further, because I had better things to do than to try to pick through that kind of nonesnse looking to see if you had a point. Regardless of whether or not we as a cummunity decide to say that sort of thing is beyond the pale (and I agree with Thomas's point that this sort of thing is exactly the kind of behaviour that tends to cause many people --- and disproportionate number of women --- to avoid certain on-line forums), you can not force me to READ what you write. And as long as you write in that kind of uncivilized manner, it will be ultimately self-defeating, since some number of people will simply refuse to read what you post. - Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]