Diane Mackay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Sitting on any list where folks are abusive, especially in a constant > matter, is really hard to do. It turns folks away. I used to sit on > the users list to help answer questions, and I have been turned away, > because I became tired of reading rude messages directed at OOo users, > aka OOo /customers/ over and over again. I am now a fence sitter at > the OOo project, trying to decide if I should stay or if I should go, > and I have been asked to state some of things that has affected my > desire to work for the project. I can say whole-heartily, this is one > of those things. I have seen users being abused by OOo veterans since > I first started the project, and now we do so consistently and we do > it on the users list, of all places. > It would be a loss to the list if you went; I have two ways of getting past thisproblem First, I read the lists in a newsreader from gmane, which makes it easy to skip, and would, if I wanted to, make it easy to killfile people. This is not "community", but it makes it possible to help. Secondly, every time I see a post from GRS, I think of the Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons. This may not help everyone, but I find it works for me. -- Andrew Brown The email in the header does not work. Contact details and possibly useful macros from http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
