Jan Labanowski wrote:
>
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Bojan Smojver wrote:
>
> >
> > I can't argue with that one since I'm very green here. But my thinking
> > is coming from the basic mailing list notion: ask your question in the
> > right forum.
>
> You see, people are by design swine, selfish, and lazy, and they will ask
> their question on 3 lists at the same time, and 10 times on each list, since
> they want the answer, and they do not give a s... about other people, and
> they are too lazy to RTFM.
And they will go through the trouble of filling in a complicated form 3
times to post it to 3 lists? Don't think so. They are lazy.
> If you cannot punish people, they will abuse...
> And nobody can punish the abusers, since nobody has authority to do it...
> This discussion comes cyclically to this list. It is like the recent
> explosion of "ban the guns to be safe" in US because of terrorists.
> We want to legislate "goodness" and "compassion" and hope the SOBs will
> listen. I would ban the box cutters first {:-)}. By making more rules
> you only screw up good people. The bad people do not give a damn and will
> do what they want -- they usually do not even read the rules.
I don't want to punish anyone. I want to reward good people for using
the proper channels and putting in the effort. That was my point.
Bojan
