Hi :) I tend to agree. He/she does give some good answers to solve some problems but usually does quite the opposite.
On the other hand we need to learn to deal with the type of blatant FUD he/she spouts. What he/she claims is often the complete opposite of reality but it tends to be the commonly held view in the world out there. It would be good if we used his/her ridiculous posts to develop calm, humorous and dignified retorts. Sadly it is rare to find people giving answers such as James' recent one. Mostly we just get too defensive and angry and unable to cope and that makes the lists seem hostile. Also while he/she is on-list at least he/she is less able to spread such nonsense in the comments under press articles and elsewhere. I've always hoped that his/her energy could be harnessed for good but it doesn't appear to be going that way. Finally, banning such people makes them appear to have won. It shows weakness = that we are unable to cope. It sets a precedence. In the future do we just give-up on people and cases that are not easy to solve or do we continue to try to figure out answers? Such people just come back under another name. However, i think Italo is right and that banning this one person is inevitably going to be something that has to be done. Regards from Tom :) On 26 April 2014 18:35, Italo Vignoli <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this guy should be banned from TDF mailing lists. > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE > USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE > Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:12:58 +0700 > From: Urmas <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > "James Knott": > > > IIRC, the formats that are no longer supported > are the ancient StarOffice ones. > > StarOffice 5.2 was released in 1998. If that is 'ancient' for you, you are > an idiot that should be kept out from developing office software. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- > Italo Vignoli - The Document Foundation > mob IT +39.348.5653829 - mob EU +39.392.7481795 > email [email protected] - skype italovignoli > email / hangout [email protected] > GPG Key ID - 0xAAB8D5C0 > DB75 1534 3FD0 EA5F 56B5 FDA6 DE82 934C AAB8 D5C0 > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/moderators/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/moderators/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
