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Re: Debian as living system



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Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, 18 May 2005, Roger Leigh wrote:
>
>> Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> writes:
>>
>> > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:46:33PM +0200, Rapha?l Pinson wrote:
>> >> I agree that the previous mail was not very easy to read, nor written in a
>> >> great english. But I don't think that being fluent in english should be a
>> >> requirement to be treated nicely on a development list...
>> >
>> > I *could* have simply ignored him.
>>
>> That would have been much better; please do so in the future.  If you
>> don't have anything worthwhile to contribute, silence is preferable.
>
> This applies to the original poster as well.  And how else are they going to
> know that what they want to discuss is worthless, after they've already done
> it, unless we tell them?

There are ways of telling people things without being unduly
offensive.

debian-devel has acquired a reputation for being rather unfriendly and
intimidating place, but there's no need to perpetuate that.
Politeness doesn't take much more effort than being rude.


Regards,
Roger

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