On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:23:00AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Andrew Suffield] > > I acknowledge that I occasionally write mails which can be sharp and > > pointy, but generally it's just in response to similarly sharp > > mails. It's hardly uncommon in Debian; > I suspect we would reduce > the conflict level and increase productivity if there were less such > messages. Replying with strong language to a message with strong > language tend to just escalate the conflict, and in my experience > rarely end in a constructive way. In my experience, it is sometimes necessary to get somebody's attention, and it does sometimes work. The trick is one of judgement. I stand by mine and challenge anybody to show it to be significantly worse than the norm. I find it significant that so far, nobody has even tried to do so. > Removed your name from the subject. I believe it is a bad idea to > have names in subjects, as the name linger on while the topic being > discussed tend to drift far away from the original topic. That's part of why I hate having to do this. It wasn't my idea. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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