On Tuesday, 16 August, 2005 at 01:23 +0200, Herman Robak wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:32:35 +0200, Helen Faulkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >but even so, this kind of comment is not helpfulto the aims of the DW > >project. > > It was too terse to make sense, apparently. >
No, in my opinion it was perfectly clear and I took it as aggressive. I do understand that the escalating discussion here over the last few days is not the norm in D-W, but just the fact it's gone this far and had this overall increasingly "unfriendly" tone is disturbing. I guess I came here expecting it to be more like linuxchix. For one thing, I did not understand it's a group primarily for developers rather than new users. Instead of a "springboard" into the main Debian group I thought this would be a place women can ask "stupid" questions without expecting the terse slaps in response so common on male-dominated groups. For another, the name debian-*women* seems a little misleading when such a large percentage of the more vocal posters appear to be male. Nothing personal against any of the men posting; none of them seem to be leering or making rude noises, but still, it's a bit startling when I was expecting something else. Guess that's all I have to say. julie ...still waiting for her Ubuntu discs to swim the Atlantic... four weeks and counting -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
