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James, |
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On Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:46, James wrote: |
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> Peter Lewis <prlewis <at> letterboxes.org> writes: |
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> > No, I didn't mean it as a criticism anyway. I just find that it helps to |
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> > assume the best on mailing lists. It all helps for a happy community. |
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> Dear Pompous Jerks: |
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Are you including me in that? |
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If you read what I wrote, you will find that I was indeed advocating the use |
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of the mailing list for people to ask for advice / experiences, rather than |
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flaming someone for not using Google. |
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I too am surprised by the lack of civility on this and other Gentoo mailing |
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lists sometimes. This is something which can only put people off asking for |
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help on them. |
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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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> If google is so wonderful, and all of the aforementioned geniuses |
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> so bright, how did you guys miss the most glaring response of all? |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/gnap-userguide.xml |
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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 ask |
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the question without being shot down for "being lazy". |
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> After all, since he asked on a gentoo list, might we not all assume |
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> that he's inquiring about a gentoo_ish solution, without explicit |
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> statement thereof? |
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> You guys should be ashamed of your behavior. Just because somebody |
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> does not write a politically correct question, does not mean |
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> they don't need help. If you are not will to *HELP* then just |
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> ignore the email...... |
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I could not agree more. |
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> Besides, Gentoo's greatest strength is |
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> the help the community provides to one another. Do you think this |
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> guy is now going to go to his friends and say "hey checkout this |
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> firewall I found and set up with the help of the gentoo community?" |
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Like I said, I think this list could be a LOT friendlier. Just because someone |
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is a Gentoo user does not mean that we can assume all sorts of knowledge and |
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skills. They may well just be curious or like the thing. |
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Pete. |
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