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Re: [OT] aggressiveness on our mailing lists.



Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24 2009, MJ Ray wrote:
> > [...] the project should remain polite even in the
> > face of really daft ideas (like the 3017th report that our website CSS
> > is invalid just because the W3C validator is incomplete).
>
>         Calling a daft idea silly is being rude now?

Not necessarily (it depends how one phrases it), but being rude is one
way of being "not overly genteel" (as the earlier message advocated).
I feel one shouldn't discourage politeness here.

Hope that explains,
-- 
MJR/slef
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