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Twice today I responded to rude messages (once here, once on the SpamBayes
list) whose authors didn't deserve the benefit of my time. In both cases,
other people rightfully responded with some small amount of return venom
(but provided useful responses
Asad Habib wrote:
Well, even if you are a hobbyist, that does not excuse you from being
civil. After all, we are all humans beings that deserve to be treated with
respect. Professional, hobbyist, vagabond, ogre, instigator, troll ...
THERE IS NO EXCUSE ... please treat others with respect.
I
I was explaining the difference between irony and sarcasm to my
daughter just the other day. It was nice of Asad to provide us with
such a besutiful example. Not that I'm sure that was his intent...
Jeff
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:23:46 -0500, Rocco Moretti wrote:
Professionals (and even decent hobbyists) don't
escalate flame wars, even unintentionally.
You don't get out much, do you? *wink*
If your comment is meant to be _prescriptive_ rather than _descriptive_, I
don't entirely agree.
Flame
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:24:06 -0400, Asad Habib wrote:
Well, even if you are a hobbyist, that does not excuse you from being
civil. After all, we are all humans beings that deserve to be treated with
respect. Professional, hobbyist, vagabond, ogre, instigator, troll ...
THERE IS NO EXCUSE ...
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:23:46 -0500, Rocco Moretti wrote:
Professionals (and even decent hobbyists) don't
escalate flame wars, even unintentionally.
You don't get out much, do you? *wink*
If your comment is meant to be _prescriptive_ rather than _descriptive_, I
but..but...It's so much more fun to unleash your anger and fire back
with all guns blazing fanning the flame war that most discussion groups
degenerate into after a couple of responses. =)
Actually, I had some self restraint yesterday. I wanted to write a
ripping response to an antagonistic flame
Sounds more like fighting fire with... water?
Sounds good to me.
-- Paul
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projecktzero wrote:
but..but...It's so much more fun to unleash your anger and fire back
with all guns blazing fanning the flame war that most discussion groups
degenerate into after a couple of responses. =)
Actually, I had some self restraint yesterday. I wanted to write a
ripping
Rocco Moretti wrote:
projecktzero wrote:
but..but...It's so much more fun to unleash your anger and fire back
with all guns blazing fanning the flame war that most discussion groups
degenerate into after a couple of responses. =)
Actually, I had some self restraint yesterday. I wanted to write
I agree with Mustafa. After all, we are a bunch of professionals and not
vagabonds hired to take pot shots at one another.
- Asad
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, mustafa wrote:
Rocco Moretti wrote:
projecktzero wrote:
but..but...It's so much more fun to unleash your anger and fire back
with all
What, do you not consider yourself a professional? Just because you are in
academia does not justify attacking people on a mailing list and then
justifying your attack with Harter's quote! Life is more than a quote -
look outside your academic cocoon and you will realize what I mean.
- Asad
On
Asad Habib wrote:
What, do you not consider yourself a professional?
Not really, no.
Just because you are in
academia does not justify attacking people on a mailing list and then
justifying your attack with Harter's quote!
Uh, it was a joke. A self-denigrating joke. I was calling *myself* a
Asad Habib wrote:
I agree with Mustafa. After all, we are a bunch of professionals and not
vagabonds hired to take pot shots at one another.
Except that we're not all professionals. There are a large number of
hobbyists who use Python and this list.
At any rate, my suggestion was not to
Well, even if you are a hobbyist, that does not excuse you from being
civil. After all, we are all humans beings that deserve to be treated with
respect. Professional, hobbyist, vagabond, ogre, instigator, troll ...
THERE IS NO EXCUSE ... please treat others with respect.
- Asad
On Thu, 28 Jul
Twice today I responded to rude messages (once here, once on the SpamBayes
list) whose authors didn't deserve the benefit of my time. In both cases,
other people rightfully responded with some small amount of return venom
(but provided useful responses nonetheless).
Let me suggest that there is
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