Re: [OT] Re: On why you should volunteer my way(?)

2014-03-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 11 March 2014 00:21:18 Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: if somebody doesn't yell and scream Nobody yelled and screamed. And what is going on now is *far* more likely to drive people away. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: [OT] Re: On why you should volunteer my way(?)

2014-03-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 09:14:50AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: And what is going on now is *far* more likely to drive people away. It's ugly, I'll grant that, but I don't agree with you here. The phrase we shall not hide our problems springs to mind, but I can't remember where it comes from. --

Re: [OT] Re: On why you should volunteer my way(?)

2014-03-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 mar 14, 20:18:56, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 09:14:50AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: And what is going on now is *far* more likely to drive people away. It's ugly, I'll grant that, but I don't agree with you here. The phrase we shall not hide our problems springs

[OT] Re: On why you should volunteer my way(?)

2014-03-10 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 11/03/14 01:41, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 03/10/2014 08:29 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 3/10/2014 4:45 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I've been using the phonetic abbreviation nub for over 15 years It's commonly used in SMS new-bee, all over the world. And some people will be offended by it -

Re: [OT] Re: On why you should volunteer my way(?)

2014-03-10 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:53:05 +1100 Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com wrote: Can we all move on to helping Debian users with the technical problems now? :) Of course we can, if somebody doesn't yell and scream and drive them away before we can give them assistance. Thanks,

Re: [OT] Re: On why you should volunteer my way(?)

2014-03-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
I've been using the phonetic abbreviation nub for over 15 years I can't be bothered to track back and identify the author of such precious nonsense. 'nub' is not in esr's lexicon. Period. (If I once more call attention to the atrocious lack of netiquette that five levels of citation