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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [Thu May 18 2006, 04:01:42PM CDT] |
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> On Thu, 18 May 2006 16:41:09 -0400 Peter <pete4abw@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> | However, continuing the thread serves no useful purpose except, IMHO, |
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> | to completely obfuscate the original point of the thread |
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> Nonsense. There is still productive discussion going on in that thread. |
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> The only reason it is so noisy is because a small group of malcontents |
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> who hold grudges against some of the Paludis developers. |
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That's not entirely fair. In the case of both pauldv and wolf31o2, I |
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suspect that holding grudges was not the reason for the heightened |
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tempers. Instead, it looked to me like both devs had very strong |
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opinions on what an alternative package manager should do, and neither |
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was happy with the fact that paludis would work differently. |
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Consequently, they both attacked paludis quite strongly, asserting their |
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opinions as "obvious" facts, and received strongly-worded, not entirely helpful |
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counterarguments in return. A larger dose of patience, or perhaps a few |
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controlled substances, would have dramatically lowered the heat. |
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Despite all that, there's been a lot of useful content in this thread. |
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> | While I am completely against any form of censorship, I certainly |
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> | wish I had the ability to block that thread and all further postings |
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> | to it. |
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> Then learn how to use your mail client. |
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I wouldn't have stated it that way, but a threaded mail client does work |
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wonders for this sort of thing. Both mutt and thunderbird, for example, |
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allow one to fold, delete, or otherwise just ignore a thread quite |
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nicely. |
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> And hey, look, by starting yet another thread you're just making noise |
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> in an attempt to justify a personal grudge, thus making things harder |
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> for the people who do real work around here. If you don't have anything |
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> useful to contribute, shut up and go away. |
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*Sigh* Be nice, please. Incidentally, he did have a point that this |
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thread is now darn hard to follow. Perhaps it's time to split off a |
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thread or two...? |
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