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Stephen P. Becker posted <43F1D8A7.3090809@g.o>, excerpted below, |
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on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:18:31 -0500: |
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> The point is, you need to stop polluting this list with completely |
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> off-topic sub-rants which have nothing to do with gentoo development. |
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> You do a very good job at killing useful threads with your essays on |
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> world peace. |
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It's not entirely off topic, as it pertains to dev/user relations. Note |
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that I didn't go into detail originally, until asked to clarify, which I |
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did. That's not off topic, that's supplying logical support for an |
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on-topic answer to an on-topic, even "useful", question. You don't have |
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to agree with my particular viewpoint on "world peace", to see how my |
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answer related to the topic at hand. |
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In any case, it's certainly more on topic than references to goats and the |
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like. Yes, I understand the joking and etc in the context of welcoming a |
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new dev and yes, I consider it reasonably appropriate, precisely on topic |
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or not. That's not the point. It can't however be reasonably argued that |
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such comments are any closer to on topic than mine are, yet the same folks |
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that complain about my comments don't emit a peep when these farther from |
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topic comments come up. Where's the consistency? |
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Having no rule that can be applied to all cases with consistent results, |
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how am I to know when I'm breaking the rule? I can't. It's therefore |
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impossible to comply, because the rule appears to be arbitrary, with no |
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consistent application possible. If a consistent rule exists, make it |
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known, and perhaps the results will be more agreeable. |
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Also... how can I kill a useful thread of tens or hundreds of posts from |
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multiple posters, with a single "essay on world peace"? Am I making the |
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posting choices for the other participants? Hardly. How then can it be |
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possible for me to kill the thread, when it's always possible to ignore my |
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"essay" and the resulting subthread, if desired, and continue posting away |
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on the more "useful" subthreads, as if I'd never posted in the first |
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place. |
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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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