I'm surprised this turned into a flame war, and in that light I'll only
reply here on the single phrase that started it.
I wasn't very offended by the gay comment myself, but I do feel strongly
that when such comments are made they need to be spoken about openly. I
don't believe VirginSnow
For those of you who weren't at lastnight's GNHLUG board meeting, the
Board expressed favor for the idea of creating a new SIG. In order to
get the final thumbs up, the SIG must have a slick-sounding name and
something at least resembling a mission statement.
I'm going to propose the name
As I've said before, what you're looking for is very different from what
we're building, and I really dislike you're repeated attempts at trying to
co-opt this.
You obviously have a lot of interest and have a clear idea of what you want
to do, so find people interested in doing it with you and do
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 14:18 -0400, Arc Riley wrote:
As a side note, please stop using the word gay to refer to something
you don't like, it's offensive.
I'd like to second this. It's offensive and unnecessary.
--
Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Code Energy
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:18:55 -0400
From: Arc Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org
Holy cow. You sent this spewing vomitous reply to the whole list?
You should be aware there are over 300 people on the -discuss list.
Nevertheless, since you posted on-list, I will reply
From: Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:56:17 -0400
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 14:18 -0400, Arc Riley wrote:
As a side note, please stop using the word gay to refer to something
you don't like, it's offensive.
I'd like to second this. It's offensive and unnecessary.
I will ignore the vitriol in both directions, but I feel it is appropriate
to respond to this part:
(1) People want to foster adoption of FOSS in our community.
(2) People want a place where new users can get help with FOSS.
(3) If you offer (1), you should also offer (2).
Does it
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 19:41 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, yeah, I can see how that could be non-PC. If I'd have called
Support SIG stupid, I'd have offended people with low IQ. If I'd
called it dumb, I'd have offended those who couldn't talk. If I
called it gay - you're right - I
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:56:17 -0400
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 14:18 -0400, Arc Riley wrote:
As a side note, please stop using the word gay to refer to something
you don't like, it's
Hmm... non-PC... like a Mac?
I'll shut up now. :)
- Chris
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Tom Buskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:56:17 -0400
On Fri, 2008-08-01 at
On Aug 1, 2008, at 14:18, Arc Riley wrote:
As I've said before, what you're looking for is very different from
what
we're building, and I really dislike you're repeated attempts at
trying to
co-opt this.
I guess I'll catch up on the beginning of the conversation from the
Board meeting
From: Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:31:42 -0400
Are you actually going to tell me that you think equating an entire
subset of the population, several of whom I would imagine belong to this
mailing list, as bad is acceptable?
I didn't say that gays were bad or
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