Yikes, I just joined this list a couple of days ago. I hope it's not always like this... Does anyone have anything interesting to say about... oh, let's see umm.. well, Debian PPC for example? :-D
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 09:14, Joshua Narins wrote: > Did one A Hitler really end all Hitler-like behavior? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Pye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tue 4/20/04 7:52 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Subject: Re: (subtitle: Britannia Rules the Waves) > <snip> > I avoided the temptation to apply to your obvious troll, the first time I > saw it, but seeing as this has turned into a thread, I have more motivation > to respond, if just to try to put the matter to sleep. > > > Absolutely, but the reason for my "diatribe" was the tone of admonition > > in Mr Pye's note. Netiquette is if you can provide help, do so, > > otherwise stay quiet and do not use capital letters to pile on the advice > > seeker's agony. > > Fortunately, I do not have to listen to anybody else's wonderful > suggestions as to how to respond to posters. > > Seeing as you could offer neither help, nor any kind of advice, even if > harshly worded request to use English, and demonstrate some kind of > intelligent thought in phrasing the question, to the original poster, > surely your post is more redundant than mine? > > > Here is what David Pye wrote: > > > c) Even ignoring a and b, you have given insufficient information for > > > anyone to even ATTEMPT to guess what your problem might be. > > > > If someone has "given insufficient information" for the problem to be > > diagnosed, you could - if you have an idea - indicate what further > > information is required. If you have no clue, do not admonish, someone > > else might be able to provide help. If information is insufficient "for > > anyone to even ATTEMPT to guess what [the advice seeker's] problem might > > be", the poor mug will get no response at all from anybody! I understand > > no French myself, so I could not have provided help on this occasion even > > in the unlikely case I knew the solution. > > Unlike you, I am more than able to understand what the poster said, and the > general uselessness of his question is what actually irritated me, *FAR* > more than that it was in French. Had it been a well-written post in French, > I might even have decided to reply to it, rather than point out the > posters' lack of netiquette. > > If more information was needed, then again, some suggestions might have > been offered. But for someone to be deluded enough to think that "My > network doesn't work. Can anyone advise?" is sufficient information, then > they deserve what was, based upon net tradition, a fairly mild admonishment > ;) > > > I am a sole Apple Mac user and it is a debian-powerPC list, and even > > Debian on a Wintel machine is not relevant to me or to this list, and > > neither Iraq nor Anglo-American colonial pursuits can even remotely be > > construed to have a relevance here, but I suspect Mr David Pye's wrath > > was about the use of the French language, and wrath has no place in this > > list either. If the language used in a particular posting is > > inappropriate, it is for the custodians of the list to take it up with > > the poster. > > I dont have any dislike of French - I suspect your paranoia is caused by > some other reason, which I have no intention to delve into here. It > appears obvious to me by your distinctly odd and politically charged reply > that you lack familiarity with the internet mailing lists, and their > general standard of discussion, or debate. > > I speak reasonable French, and have no dislike of it whatsoever, and in > this case, you are better off keeping your mistaken 'suspicions' of > people's intentions to yourself. Rather than flagging up my suspected > prejudice, you have rather more revealed your own. > > > -- Ashesh Kumar Datta > > Anyway, as a suggestion I spotted in a previous post pointed out: > > Adolf Hitler > Nazism > > Godwin's law. > > Seeing as this discourse moves in no direction towards Debian PPC > greatness, let's leave it to rest. > > David
