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Henrik Brix Andersen posted <20051123103611.GB30069@××××××××××××××××.dk>, |
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excerpted below, on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:36:11 +0100: |
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> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:14:25AM -0700, Duncan wrote: |
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>> OK, this is a gripe of mine, so... |
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> [snip unuseful rant] |
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Political point: Calling someone's hard work "unuseful" without |
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qualification is likely to cause offense. If it's so useless, after all, |
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would someone have spent the time to post it? Therefore, it's useful to |
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/someone/, even if that /someone/ is only the poster. "IMO unuseful" gets |
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the point across, without being quite so offensive. (Who can fault |
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someone for having an opinion and expressing it?) |
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> Do you always have this much time on your hands? Perhaps if you try |
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> cutting down on the length of your emails someone might actually read them |
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> - instead you could then spend the time on trying to understand an |
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> internal developer joke? |
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Got the joke, but the point was, it wasn't directly apparent from the URL |
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(with no description) what the joke was, and like many jokes, it isn't so |
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funny once it has to be explained. |
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Cutting down on the mail length, right, so I'll stop here. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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