kg7fu wrote:

>Shaddap or I'll smack you around.
>
>People make mistakes and people are assholes...I made a mistake
>and you are quickly going to be filed in the asshole column.
>
> - jk
>
I am not sure if I should even respond to this because it is too easy to 
escalate these threads.  I will, and risk that my comments are 
misinterpreted.  I also want to state that I am *not* singling out the 
posting quoted above, it is merely the last in this thread and I am 
using it for context.  With due respect to everyone on this list, the 
postings I have seen lately do not reflect the spirit of this list, the 
open-source community, or Linux.  The audience for this list extends 
beyond the small group of people who post regularly, and I think it 
casts our community in a poor light when the bandwidth of this list is 
filled with bickering, regardless of the intention of the poster.

I hope many other readers agree, and I would point out that email is a 
limited medium that is well suited for discussion of some matters, while 
ill suited for others.  Let's try to make good decisions about how we 
use it.

Thanks,

Kahli

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