On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 12:36:19PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:58:02PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Personally, I find swearing much less offensive than making things so > > personal that you title threads with things like "Serious problems with > > Mr Troup" or "Why Anthony Towns is wrong". But you don't seem interested > > in doing anything about that, so why should anyone else be interested > > in addressing your concerns? > > I think you have a point there. > > There's a difference between being abrasive, belligerent, obnoxious, > and incoherent and being coherently and pointedly slanderous -- and the > latter is far more noxious.
True, but -- I don't think that either of those subject lines are really slanderous. For instance, the "Why Anthony Towns is wrong" should probably have read "Why Anthony Towns' *Argument* is wrong" -- which simply uses Anthony's name to identify which argument is being referred to. However, I don't see the difference as being all that significant. Back in my old FidoNet days, the "Golden Rule" of FidoNet went basically like this: "Thou shalt not be excessively annoying, and thou shalt not be excessively easily annoyed." I think that applies perfectly to Debian. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]