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Mick wrote: |
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> On Saturday 22 Mar 2014 00:28:04 Dale wrote: |
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>> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> Judging by replies so far, I'd guess not many at all. You can't |
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>>> possibly know how many will or will not plonk someone. In the meantime |
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>>> Dale, I think you are projecting. Chill out brother, chill out. Plenty |
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>>> stuff in the world more deserving of attention than this. |
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>> I fixed it now. No more problems. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> Some of us read all, but reply only where we think we can add value |
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and when |
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> time allows. |
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> There is no need really on this list for verbal abuse, especially when a |
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> contributor has offered well considered advice and carefully articulated |
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> opinion. |
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> Nevertheless, I also find personally addressed emails annoying, but it |
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can be |
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> fixed by setting up a filter on most mail clients to drop them in the |
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> corresponding M/L. This may be a more civil way than alienating |
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people who |
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> want to join this community. I'm just saying ... |
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> |
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If a person sends html messages to this list, there is quite a few that |
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will block because they can't read them. Same as with quite a few other |
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things that is not liked on this list. Folks don't like html and don't |
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like getting two copies of the same message. My point was and still is, |
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if he doesn't want to conform to what this list expects, he will be |
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blacklisted by people on this list. Period. It's nothing personal |
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about it since I would inform anyone else of the same thing. It's |
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really that simple. |
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I still remember when I first joined this list. I was told the same |
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thing about my email program sending html. If I had not conformed to |
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the requests of people on this mailing list, I would have been |
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blacklisted by a large group of people and was told that I would by some |
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of the very ones that would do it. When joining a community, you |
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conform to what is expected. You don't join and then force everyone |
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else to conform to what you want. All Tom had to do is not CC |
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everyone. Real simple. No harder than me telling my software to send |
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text only message to gentoo.org. |
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It seemed to me that Tom refused the request of quite a few people even |
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after several asked him to change. Based on that, I blacklisted him. |
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That is something I rarely do but hey, it is what it is. I fixed his |
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problem for him. I suspect others have done the same. |
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BTW, I have yet to see him add much of anything to any discussion. I've |
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seen his posts on -dev as well. I won't now but still. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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-- |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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