On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 03:58:05PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > There are people on the project I hardly know and who do very > > important parts of the project. On the other hand there are people > > (no names) who just talk and do nothing but have a fancy @debian.org > > address. If you knew me you'd know how much time I invest into the > > project. > > You know, I think part of the problem is people who think of > Debian as a status game. Who the heck cares what other people think > of your stature, as long as you are getting to hack the OS into a > shape that is useful to you? All this concentration on Blah just > talks and only has a fancy address -- bleargh. Why is an email > address fancy? The person behind the email is far more important than > a handle to direct smtp traffic their way. > > People who care about the email address are so childishly > jejune that their utterances ought to go straight to the bit bucket. Sheesh, such people actually exist? An email address is like a telephone number. It is a contact path. You are not your telephone number, and nor does it represent you in any particular way other than being a contact path. > > I knew you were primarily talking to me. And I doubt a lot that you > > would dare talk to me like that in person. I'd be disappointed if > > you did. > > Hell, I talk on the list exactly the same as I would in > person. I am not so insecure that I need develop a secondary persona > in email. If you wish, I'll give you a personal demonstration at the > next conference we happen to go to. I can think of few things quite so rude as people who act differently in public, in private, or whenever they think somebody in particular isn't listening. It's a variation of the quite repulsive principle that appearences matter more than actions - "It doesn't matter what I say about them, so long as they don't know about it". -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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