On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 12:24:41PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: [...] > Good morning tomás, > > Sincere apologies if you took it personally, No worries, I didn't. Not as an offense, by the least. No need to apoligize. > I did not intend to > target you at all. Thing is, we all do stupid things without noticing, and from past experience I know *I* do. But I'm willing to learn from mistakes -- thus my question. > My message was actually addressed to anyone > on the list, especially some writers with stronger language than > usual, but I can't recall you being part of this set. Yes, I > have found an issue; yes, it appears in your post; no, it is not > your authoring. Perhaps I unwillingly targeted you by quoting a > part of your message, but this was not intentional. Should it > reoccur, the message would just contain the paragraph leading to > the link, no quote. Are you fine with that, or do I completely > miss the point? Somewhat, but in a different way :-) See, as far as I am concerned, your post was fine, so when you feel like that, just do it again. And if you catch me behaving as I shouldn't, by all means, call me out on that. > Now thinking twice, the so called wise man which authored the > very first profanity may not be subscribed to the list though... > :) I tend to be a bit more lenient than you: this kind of profanities don't seem to me too hard: although I'd prefer them to be rare (for the benefit of those who might feel pain at reading them), I think that some level of tolerance is necessary in such a big mailing list. The OP didn't insult anyone personally, and (s)he is known to have a rather curt and strong language. OTOH, (s)he has many helpful and to-the-point posts here. That's why I decided to take the edge off that thing in a humorous way by reminding us of the fact that agriculture's main business model is turning manure into tasty aubergines; so perhaps that wise man wasn't totally right after all... So don't worry. All is well. My question was really genuine, not a contorted way of defense or something. Cheers -- tomás
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