On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 05:04:16PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote: > Andrew Suffield <asuffield@suffields.me.uk> writes: > >What on *earth* are you referring to? I can see nothing obvious. > > Are you being sarcastic? > > The list is full of unnecessary rudeness. [...] > The whole tone of the list is surprisingly and unnecessarily hostile. This is purely subjective. One thing that *I* have observed, in more years than I care to remember, is that "rudeness" and "hostility" are taken, not given. And it's sheer hubris to think that everybody else shares your definition of them. Furthermore, it's irrelevant. Somebody with a different speech pattern to you does not constitute a "flamewar". > Just look at the current > thread where someone pointed out a bug in many mirror scripts, where the > Packages > file is transferred before the .deb files. For the sin of raising this > real issue, > heaps of insults were piled on the poor guy's head. Actually, it's for the sin of being the biggest pointless waste of time Debian has ever experienced. As usual, he added nothing useful to the subject. Nonetheless, it *still* didn't qualify as a "flamewar" unless you're completely nuts. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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