Re: debian and women? from DWN #10
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 12:52:18 -0500
Chris Metzler <cmetzler@speakeasy.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 21:59:11 +0530
> Ritesh Raj Sarraf <riteshsarraf@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> >
> > If I'm not mistaken, this list is supposed to be a technical list
> > discussing issues specific to the Debian GNU/Linux Distribution.
>
> >From http://lists.debian.org/users.html :
>
> } debian-user: Help and discussion among users of Debian
>
> Do gender issues among posters to technical lists apply? IMHO, since they
> affect the comfort level of people posting here, they apply just fine.
> They apply more than e.g. posts about the SCO suits, or MS being fined
> by the EU, or a zillion other topics that get discussed here.
>
> But that's my opinion. And your opinion is that this thread doesn't
> belong here. And you believe that strongly And that's fine. You were
> doing just fine until you wrote. . .
>
I didn't say that I believe it strongly. I also boycott those other offtopics posted and then getting converted to a huge flood of useless msgs.
BTW, Who definitely knows wether the poster is a male or female ? It's just a presumption.
And if people do enjoy such topics ( Which I term offtopic), then as a request, can't we have a list something purely like "debian-technical"
> > Initiating such offtopic useless discussions on a
> > technical list is one of the difference between men and women. Might be.
>
> Of course, it's wonderfully ironic you ended your email this way, since
> it's an example of exactly the kind of immaturity that brought this issue
> to the attention of people here in the first place.
>
Sometimes you do need to be ironic while replying, when you get hundreds of email which can also be termed at brothers and sisters of SPAM, and are termed for the list informative.
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT (www.researchut.com)
Happy GNU/Linux user since 1998
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FORTUNE !
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to
change the things we can, and wisdom to hide the bodies of the slobs we
have to kill for pissing us off ...
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