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On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:21:06 -0600 |
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> Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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>> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> [snip] |
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>> >> Seniority != meritocracy. And I don't know how much "meritocratic" |
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>> >> this list could be, since it is a users lists. The most "merit" a |
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>> >> member of this list can get is to give technically acurate, |
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>> >> constructive, and polite help for those users asking for it. |
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>> >> |
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>> > in that case Alan certainly is at the very top. |
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>> > He is one of maybe three posters where I read every mail - and one |
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>> > of a handful I have a hard time to disagree with. Same for Neil |
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>> > Bothwick. Just to name two that rank very highly on my privat list |
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>> > of good gentoo-user citizens. |
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>> > Because both know what they are talking about. Something that is |
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>> > very rare. |
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>> I'm not saying otherwise. I'm just saying that asking for "how long" |
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>> someone has "been around" to determine his "place in the pecking |
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>> order" it's laughable. |
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>> Just for the record, and although I'm a systemd user and supporter, I |
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>> don't agree with many of the things 微蔡 said, and I certainly don't |
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>> agree with the way he said them. |
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>> But still for Alan to ask for how long he has been on the list to |
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>> undermine his point of view, I think is laughable at the best, and |
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>> cheap at the worst. |
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> Now is the correct time to point out that you misinterpreted my post. I |
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> didn't say so earlier for the simple reason that (in my world at least) |
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> that always seems to pour gasoline on fires. |
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> The intent was for 微蔡 to respond then I could point out that I felt |
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> him coming in here brand new and making comments of "haters" and so on |
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> was highly inappropriate and considered rude in almost all human |
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> cultures. It is true that longevity doesn't buy much, but it is also |
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> true that people in a group or community do have to establish at least |
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> *some* street cred first. Sans that, we have little more than |
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> mob-chaos. |
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I don't agree with that. It's a technical list, so the technical |
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arguments should be the only ones that matter, no matter who says them |
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or (to a certain degree) how they say them. |
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I didn't say anything about the members of the list responding to 微蔡 |
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on at least one technical ground; yours was the first message I saw |
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that had not even a hint of a technical argument, but only a call for |
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proof of seniority. I felt that needed to be called out, because (IMO) |
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it serves no purpose and alienates users, specially new ones that feel |
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that they don't belong to a non-existing club. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |