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On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:21:06 -0600 |
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Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann |
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> <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> [snip] |
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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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> > in that case Alan certainly is at the very top. |
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> > He is one of maybe three posters where I read every mail - and one |
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> > of a handful I have a hard time to disagree with. Same for Neil |
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> > Bothwick. Just to name two that rank very highly on my privat list |
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> > of good gentoo-user citizens. |
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> > Because both know what they are talking about. Something that is |
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> > very rare. |
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> I'm not saying otherwise. I'm just saying that asking for "how long" |
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> someone has "been around" to determine his "place in the pecking |
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> order" it's laughable. |
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> Just for the record, and although I'm a systemd user and supporter, I |
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> don't agree with many of the things 微蔡 said, and I certainly don't |
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> agree with the way he said them. |
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> But still for Alan to ask for how long he has been on the list to |
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> undermine his point of view, I think is laughable at the best, and |
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> cheap at the worst. |
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Now is the correct time to point out that you misinterpreted my post. I |
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didn't say so earlier for the simple reason that (in my world at least) |
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that always seems to pour gasoline on fires. |
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The intent was for 微蔡 to respond then I could point out that I felt |
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him coming in here brand new and making comments of "haters" and so on |
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was highly inappropriate and considered rude in almost all human |
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cultures. It is true that longevity doesn't buy much, but it is also |
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true that people in a group or community do have to establish at least |
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*some* street cred first. Sans that, we have little more than |
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mob-chaos. |
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That didn't happen, partly as you got in first. But no bad feelings |
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from this end, you feel how you feel and that's how it is. And I'm |
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certainly not about to insist you change your viewpoint on life or |
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change who and what you are. |
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I'm going to pinch Dale's sig as I think it's relevant: |
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"I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood |
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or how you interpreted my words!" |
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There's no finger pointing in that, I find it a useful daily reminder |
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about how easy it is to misinterpret mail. God knows I've done more of |
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that myself than most. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |