Shachar, all. I will first admit I did not read the mail attached to your (Shachar's) message - I felt embarrassed.
It is embarrassing that a member of the community feels that he needs to profer to us an audit of his emails since his veracity and integrity are impugned. It is embarrassing that that a member of the community - no matter his personal mores and propensities - feels that his offers of help are dragged through a virtual mud pool (together with his name). It is embarrassing that a community deals with who insulted whom when and where and how four (and two... and one) year(s) ago, by imputing this, that and the other not to mention a proclivity for nimble-fingeredness. It is embarrassing that the spirit of one-up-manship and pissing contests are the one real and tangible product of Hamakor. I will disambiguate my position - I am acquainted with Shachar Shemesh. I am acquainted with Shachar's system work. Some of it I think fine, some of it I think shoddy. I am sure that Shachar could say the same of my work - this is all water under the bridge of personal taste and style. I think Shachar's gravest mistake and sin vis-a-vis this server saga is in insisting on the wrong things at the wrong times and to the wrong people. Shachar's other great mistake and sin vis-a-vis the NPO is his willingness, nay - eagerness, to stick his head into the oven over and over again. He cares, he invests too much of his personal feelings into this. This is a great advantage and a great disadvantage. The same (i.e. willingness to clutch the greasy pole) could be said of Alon, Ori and quite a few others. If a person did X and Y and Z, badly or well as a volunteer, we should all kowtow and humbly utter hossanas. If the work, character, morals or breath are deficient, the volunteer should be taken behind the bicycle shed, shot and replaced by a very small shell script or a person deemed competent. If a competent volunteer cannot be had for love, perhaps a competent volunteer can be had for ready money. I suspect that the volunteering bit for the nonce is somewhat exhausted. Let the Amuta _PAY_ someone for the work, and then the paid entity shall be forced to acknowledge that the paying entity is the one calling the shots. I apologise for the lenth of this bull, but I have a feeling this discussion has gone beyond the pale. M -- ---MAV Marc A. Volovic Linguists do it cunningly --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
