Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

[Stroller]

On 22 Dec 2008, at 11:33, b.n. wrote:
> Stroller ha scritto:
>> I intended to stay silent, however I feel obliged to balance the
>> posts
>> from brullonulla@×××××.com
>
> You could answer to my emails, argumenting in detail. I hope we're not
> here to "score points", but to understand what to do to solve the
> situation.
>
> In my humble opinion, just mocking the guy and perpetuating the status
> quo is not a solution, but hey, I could be wrong :)

There's no point in me argumenting in detail, because it's all been  
said before. This is a storm in a teacup, and could easily have been  
avoided if the OP had only asked *politely* "what's all the fuss about  
HTML emails?" He could then have filed a bug about the missing  
netiquette sections of the list's welcome message and simply conducted  
himself without drawing unnecessary attention. As it is I find it  
difficult to put my finger on behaviour that would characterise the OP  
to me as "offensive", but I have found the "tone" of his emails to be  
persistently antagonising.

I would never feel it appropriate to mock the afflicted, and only  
posted to reassert points that have already been made. I find it not  
in the least credible to suggest that the original mail was *really*  
ignored because of its formatting, and the OP is not *in the least*  
"right in demanding apologies".

Mr Sebrecht's suggestion to use plain text was perfectly civil &  
courteous, and making one's debut in a community by inappropriately  
"demanding apologies" is certain to provoke negative responses. This  
thread was already *well* out of hand by the time we replied to it,  
and I see no need to further perpetuate it.

Stroller.