Re: [gentoo-user] *** STOP misuing this list for personal attacks ***

[Bruce Hill]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:29:20PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
> > On 22/03/14 14:48, Tanstaafl wrote:
> >> On 3/22/2014 5:06 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
> >>> Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >>>> Please don't use this list for personal quarrels of any kind!
> >>>>
> >>>> If someone says something you don't like - just ignore it/him.
> >>>>
> >>>> If someone insults you, reply by personal mail only.
> >>>>
> >>>> If someone says something which is*technically*  wrong,
> >>>> just correct the facts without getting personal.
> >>> I don't read every message but who is personally attacking someone?
> >> He's probably referring to my factual statement that Tom was/is acting
> >> like an arrogant prick.
> >>
> >> Lots of people confuse factual statements with personal attacks.
> >>
> >> That said, I've never been know for being tactful... ;)
> >>
> > Go and solve this shit off-list. I'm not following the systemd thread
> > but over the last few days but your (plural) quarrels have become far
> > too big in number to ignore.
> >
> > Create a separate thread if you need it so that people can ignore it
> > without missing actual on-topic messages.
> >
>
> Will, since Tom finally got the point and changed his email program to
> not CC his replies, it seems to me that Tanstaaf, others and myself were
> right.  It may have been off topic but if Tom would have just listened
> in the beginning, there wouldn't have to be so many off topic replies.
>
> Just saying.
>
> Dale

I can't quite believe Tom did that. I've even stopped replying to any thread
Tom participates in, because when I kindly asked him to "Stop Cc'ing me" (as
old and rude a habit as HTML email and top-posting), he wasted my time with
more than one arrogant reply, beating the dead horse(s) about why his way is
correct and the rest of the world needs to change it's preferences to get in
line. It's my sincere hope that someone's persistence hammered some common
sense and email etiquette into his attitude.

In fact, this list is so generally useless and filled with immature jerks
going on senselessly about crap that I rarely read it anymore, and ^D is my
largest function on this mailbox.
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List replies preferred.

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting