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On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 06:24:32PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > Say Dude, |
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> > |
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> > I have a question (well, two actually) |
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> > My name is Alan and I've been subscribed on this list for 7 years. |
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> > What's your name, and how long have you been around? |
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> > Just trying to establish your place in the pecking order in this here |
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> > meritocracy. |
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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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> IMO, the most active users of this lists usually fail in at least two |
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> of those three, sometimes all of them. Unfortunately, I don't think I |
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> have done better. I suscribed to this lists more than eight years ago; |
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> I stopped asking for help here just a few months later. Which is |
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> easily explained by people like you that believe that "being around" |
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> longer somehow gives more "merit" and that there is a "pecking order". |
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> I was under the impression that, being all of us Gentoo users, we were |
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> equals, although some of us know less about some things and some |
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> others know more about some other things. Hence the smart, mature, and |
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> polite exchange of ideas. I didn't know this was a pissing contest. |
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> This is a technical help list, related to the Gentoo Linux |
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> distribution. Please, don't try to "pull rank" in here; you just look |
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> bad, and at least I would laugh at the futility of it. Even more |
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> considering I've been around longer: |
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> http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@g.o/msg35368.html |
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> Mmmh. Maybe I've been around even longer than 8 years. But, who the |
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> <censored> cares? |
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> It's completely relevant. |
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> Regards. |
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> -- |
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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 |
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Other than your use of profanity, that post was worth making a sticky. |
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Over the last 9 years I've subscribed/unsubscribed to a good number of lists. |
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The first such abuse of others was A.O.L.S. -- yes, you just look bad, real |
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bad. |
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There is one LUG to which I'm subscribed, which is still good for support and |
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edification of others. Since I (re)joined this list on Oct 21, it appears that |
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only 3 messages have been of enough technical merit for saving. |
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