Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-13 Thread Zak B. Elep
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Anyway, this is surely off topic for -devel. Can we go back to talking about hot babes or something? That would be very welcome. -- ZAK B. ELEP [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Registered Linux User #327585 1024D/FA53851D 1486 7957 454D

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-12 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Ron Johnson wrote: On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 00:06 +, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want sweetness and light, just tell them which document to read. If I want sweetness and light I don't pretend that I think somebody needs to have explained what

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-12 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:09:18 +0100, Helmut Wollmersdorfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] My few attempts to step into debian as a contributor ended after some hours of senseless discussions or waste of time against unnecessary barriers. Compared against average OSS, or OSS where I contribute,

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-12 Thread Wim De Smet
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:48:05AM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:09:18 +0100, Helmut Wollmersdorfer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] My few attempts to step into debian as a contributor ended after some hours of senseless discussions or waste of time against

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op di, 11-01-2005 te 06:31 +0900, schreef Charles Plessy: On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:14:29PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote : 'RTFM' means Go read the documentation, that's what it's for. It also contains the F word, which is related to the act of having sex. Sex is the very meaning of

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 19:14 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Op ma, 10-01-2005 te 06:39 -0500, schreef David Mandelberg: [snip] 'RTFM' means Go read the documentation, that's what it's for. I personally find it far more rude to go on a mailing list, ask for the Do you *really* think that RTFM

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-10 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 19:37 +, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you *really* think that RTFM means Go read the documentation, that's what it's for? Yes, that's what it means.

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-10 Thread Charles Plessy
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:14:29PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote : Why don't you guys go to psychology class before telling people not to be 'rude'? It's impossible not to be rude on written media. What's a harmless joke to one is an insult to another, and an attack to one's personality to a

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-10 Thread Anthony Towns
Charles Plessy wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:14:29PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote : Why don't guys go to psychology class before telling people not to be 'rude'? Then what about keeping jokes for our private messages to our friends ? Your suggestion to go back to classes is, to my

rudeness in general

2005-01-09 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:08:36PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Andrew Suffield wrote: * New upstream release (closes: #270944, #277543). It's less than two weeks since this was released; may you contract an interesting venereal disease. Is this really called for in changelogs?

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-09 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:58:46AM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: We could even go a little further and try to avoid rudeness on the mailing lists. I recently reviewed some of the conversations with RMS on debian-legal regarding the GFDL. Several people were rude and uncivil to RMS, even

Re: rudeness in general

2005-01-09 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:17:14PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: I found RMS to be extremely rude and dismissive in the GFDL discussions. (His outright refusal to comminicate with Branden Robinson comes to mind.) Perhaps they were both rude, in different ways. Or perhaps it was a sort of