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On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:54, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 20 February 2007 19:26:21 Peter Lewis wrote: |
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> > > The arrogance of these responses is astounding. Does anyone believe |
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> > > in civility any more? |
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> [SNIP] |
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> > Quite. I know very little about the topic which the OP was asking about, |
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> > Gentoo solutions or otherwise. I was merely defending the guy's right to |
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> > ask the question without being shot down for "being lazy". |
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> I really don't see how suggesting that the OP might be lazy is so arrogant. |
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> If it's not actually the case then he can just say so. Thus far he hasn't |
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> replied to any of the replies in this thread anyway and the original post |
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> contained so little information that I gave up on deciphering it. Even if |
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> it's a language issue he can just say that... |
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I don't really think that it's arrogant, as you put it, just not that helpful. |
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All I'm really saying is that it's good to try to maintain a friendly |
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atmostphere where people feel like they can post without feeling like they |
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might be acting too silly. Perhaps some people are lazy, perhaps some aren't, |
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but like another poster said, you can just ignore the post if you don't like |
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it. |
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I'm a big fan of the "there are no stupid questions, just stupid answers" way |
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of thinking. IMO this list should be as non-threatening for |
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people-who-want-to-find-out-stuff-they-don't-know as possible. |
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:-) |
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Pete. |
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