on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:30:21PM -0500, will trillich (will@serensoft.com) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:36:25AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:25:16AM -0400, Kevin Stokes (linux@pieskysoft.com) wrote: > > > > GNU/Linux is a grown-up's operating system. You're expected to know > > > > your way around, or be able to figure it out. > > > > > > I'm sorry, but the 'You're dumb or lazy or both' argument will not fly. > > > There is an easily-correctable problem with Linux, and I hope the good > > > people who devote so much time to Linux will see that. > > > > ...and what are you going to do to me personally if this isn't fixed. > > > > Sorry, again, you've had your question answered. Turns out I'd written > > a short guide addressing just the problem you had. There's a project > > underway to do what it is you're addressing. And there are several > > viewpoints challenging your assessment of the quality of the alternative > > -- the Legacy MS Windows help system -- you've identified. > > > > You're about -> <- this far away from hitting my killfile as timesink. > > Your future benefit from this list will suffer from your attitude. > > wow. i've never seen karsten this close to over-the-edge with > anybody. (at least we now know he's human, finally.) There's a really narrow grey zone. I usually give people one or two chances. Then it's "fool me twice, shame on me." Other behaviors don't even warrant that. Spam, vacation autoresponders, utterly rude or obnoxious behavior -- any email is four keystrokes away from my spam filter, which has...396 entries[1]. There's plenty of room there. More often than not, this is an unremarked on event. Being an idiot gets you silently shitcanned, be warned. Which is part of the point -- those ignorant of the 'Net's ways may assume that all's fair and anything goes, with no consequences. Truth: reputations are made faster and easier than you can imagine, and once set, are very difficult to change. I shoot for firm but fair, speaking openly, and try to be informative. Feedback tends to say I'm doing a fair job. And, yes, I've benefitted directly from my online rep for much of the past ten years -- the 'Net is an awesome way for a bright kid in any backwood of the world to make a literally worldwide reputation. What reputation, and to what end, is his/her own affair. Kevin may have an outside shot of becoming housebroken. I wouldn't bet good money on it, but I'll throw a few bytes to the cause of his mortal soul. Cheers. -------------------- Notes: 1. In fairness, I also have a whitelist, with 752 entries. Seems the forces of good outweigh the forces of evil, by a good margin. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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