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Re: Should this be how i am supposed to act in mailing list discussions ?



On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:33:15PM +0200, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 11:19:18PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:49:51PM +0200, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > >   2) on april 28, a week ago, i made the following proposal to Steve McIntyre,
> > >   who the DPL delegated to speak with me :
> > > 
> > >     If they refrained from bashing on me regularly again, and restored my commit
> > >     rights, and i would continue my one-post-per-day-per-thread policy, i think
> > >     this might be an acceptable compromise.
> > > 
> > A compromise is when everyone make some steps forward to agree on
> > something. From my point of view, you're asking for others to make these
> > steps forward, provided that you don't have to move. That's not a
> > compromise.
> 
> A compromise is when both sides give way a bit, so that we reach a point that
> everyone can accept. I made a proposal, and there was no reply. There was no
> proposal at all from the other side.

Your proposal sounds like they have to take back everything and you...
have nothing to do. How can that reach to a compromise ?

Mike



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