Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: splite <gentoo@××××××××××××××××.edu>
To: Brad Cowan <bcowan@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo part II.
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 06:31:05
Message-Id: 20030715013105.F12388@sigint.cs.purdue.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo part II. by Brad Cowan
1 On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 01:01:44AM -0400, Brad Cowan wrote:
2 > My post wasn't to agree or disagree with the proposal, it was intended
3 > to stifle the personal attacks/flamage/whatnot
4
5 Nobody made a personal attack. "What a dumb idea, you suck, go back
6 to using Debian" would have been a flame. I'll cop to having plenty
7 of whatnot.
8
9 > and improve the overall quality of posts.
10
11 I think my posts are of reasonable quality. I try to pay attention to
12 spelling, punctuation, grammar, etc.
13
14 > Well thought out posts/ideas deserve well thought out
15 > intelligent answers no matter how you feel one way or the other towards
16
17 Screeds aren't my style. I think I made my point as succintly as
18 possible. Are you uncertain of my position on the subject?
19
20 > the subject or even how stupid a subject is. It's a respect thing.
21
22 Nobody has cracked wise about anybody's momma.
23
24 On the other hand, I didn't receive any answers to the questions I
25 posed, just critiques of my literary style. I would have been happy to
26 get replies in satire, haiku, ASCII art, whatever got the idea across.
27 Can't we have fun discussing a fun distro?
28
29 > Anyway that's my 2 cents.
30
31 I appreciate your responses, but maybe you could work in a booger joke
32 next time.
33
34 --
35 gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list