On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:38:36AM +1300, Andrew Errington wrote: > > The answer is no no no. My conclusion is that it is never never never > > ok to flame newbies. Never. > I agree. > It's okay to flame idiots though.
no, it should not be, if only for the very simple reason that any newbie bystanders may not understand why this person is an idiot, and will likely fear that they will be treated likewise if they ever dare to ask the wrong question. greetings, martin. -- looking for a job doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/