On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You could learn to be direct and tell people what you mean. > You asked in a missleading way on a list where hostile statements from > other people have already been seen. > > As I said: less than 20% of human communication is done via words. > > If I did see you, I would have known whether your non-direct posting was meant > to have an underlying hostile base or not. As I cannot see you, the only way > to avoid missunderstanding is to use unambiguous words.
Tip: do not assume people on a mailing list have an "underlying hostile base" unless they are explicitly hostile. Otherwise you're just putting fuel on flames. m. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list