[oclug]List Police

[Shad Young]

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 21:12, Milan Budimirovic wrote:
 
> Well, Shad, you're the one who is always saying that the Linux community
> should embrace the rest of the world. But guess what? There's an awful
> lot of people out there who equate all Linux advocates with the Slashdot
> crowd. It's a real problem, whether you want to see it or not. At a
> certain point you have to put your foot down and tell people to grow up,
> because these juvenile posts reflect badly on the entire list, and the
> entire community.

Granted, which is why I am as careful as I can be to check spelling,
punctuation, capitalization and grammar when I post. I even appreciated
(was it Charles?) the post about the semantic  difference between
"raises the question" and "begs the question". (I meant beg BTW, in my
mind there were still some grey areas. ;) ) 

The point being it is not appropriate under your above defined criteria
to flame and insult a poster for his style. If Bill or Brad had concerns
then the right thing to do was mail Gabriel off-line and let him know
their feelings, not ridicule him.

Shad

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