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Re: Hate mail from Debian people



On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 05:19:11PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> On 02/14/2011 04:59 PM, Erin Brinkley wrote:
> >I don't appreciate getting hate mail from people simply because I was
> >politely TALKING ABOUT DEBIAN on the debian-user list.
> >
> >I don't know where you get your communications and people skills,
> >Keshwarsingh Nadan, but if I were you I would take them back! For a full
> >refund!
> >
> >Telling a Debian user that she should get lost because her view is
> >different than yours is pretty stone age, sorry. And I do NOT appreciate
> >it. I think YOU are the person who should move on. Like scram.
> 
> I did not see anyone telling anyone to "get lost" or any other thing
> that could be classified as hate mail. The reply was brief and to
> the point and had a strong opinion, but that's not hate mail.
> 

That seems right. 

However a copy was sent directly to Erin Brinkley.

That violates both general list netiquette and this list's code of conduct.

http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct

I can see how it could be interpreted as more "personal."

However, the code of conduct requires complaints about such emails to be
made privately.

-- 
Regards,
Freeman

"Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the
answer." --Somebody


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