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Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Tue Aug 28 23:10:56 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 22:33 +0100, Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 10:25pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 (UK time), Karl Larsen scrawled:
>
> > You guys are trying to change my way of writing to yours. If you
> > would set a good example I might follow.
>
> This list was full of good list ettiquette examples before you joined
> and when you joined. You never followed them then, you are just a
> troll.
>
> > You are so superior, why do you do the same thing you accuse me of?
>
> Now one else on this list is as rude, thoughtless, ignorant and stubborn
> as you.
(leaving my chin wide open here...)
Karl, really, legitimate questions regarding real problems are good
fodder for the list. The responses to those questions are even better.
A final "Solved!" to wind it up is super nifty (and something there's
not enough of...many discussions just peter out without a clear
resolution--good or bad).
If you're conducting a dialog with someone on the list where you've been
asked to "do X and tell us what the result is", then that exchange's
also appropriate. Some of the postings you made were good and did
generate information that's useful. That all being said, a running
monologue on what you're doing is _not_ appropriate for the list and
really should be put on a blog.
Did Karl "blog"? Yes. Should he have? No. Will he do it in the
future? I doubt it. I think he (and many other quasi-bloggers) get it
now.
Anyway, this has degenerated into nothing more than a name-calling,
mudslinging donnybrook and is accomplishing nothing more than sucking
bandwidth (and yes, by posting this I'm guilty of bandwidth suckage
as well). Can we please drop it?
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