From: jim@n5ial.mythical.com (Jim Graham) Subject: Re: I'm outta here... Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 04:06:19 GMT
In article <1993May24.165009.547@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
barrett@pamsrc.enet.dec.com writes:
>I am disappointed that your lack of self-control caused you to extract 2 short
>paragraphs from a 2-page post that mainly discussed suggestions for helping
>with some real c.o.l issues, and created a mostly emotive reply that has
>nothing to do with the post, and to do this in a public forum rather than by
>email - forcing me to respond in some manner.
Seems to me that you're doing basically the same thing that you've just
gotten on someone else's case about (i.e., making an unrelated post here
instead of taking it to e-mail yourself). This doesn't help *YOUR*
position, either. :-)
Also, nobody is ``forcing'' you to respond in any manner.
Third, I don't recall that the original post was discussing suggestions
for c.o.l issues---it was whining about the fact that some people ask
questions that are either out of the FAQ, or are not strictly related to
the development of Linux (and nothing else), and the author was stating
that he (she? don't remember) was not only leaving c.o.l, but was dumping
Linux because of their dislike for this newsgroup. Pretty stupid, if you
ask me (yeah, I know....nobody's asking me).
While it isn't great to ask a question that's right out of the FAQ (though
it isn't something worth flaming someone for if they do it once without
realizing it---the FAQ is pretty huge, and someone could actually look and
still miss something), this group is (at least now...don't know about the
past) not *JUST* for discussion of Linux development---people also ask
legitimate questions here when they run into the need for assistance, and
so far, my experience has been that the responses are all very helpful. I
know that if it weren't for help I've gotten here, I might still be facing
some of the same problems as I was a long time ago.
Frankly, with regards to the original post, I go along with all of the
people who felt that if this was their attitude, let them leave....
>Followups and flames directed to /dev/null.
Not anymore. Thanks for the advance warning, though. :-)
--jim