LEAVE Karl along (WAS Re: DD not working--SUCCESS!)

[Mark C. Allman]

On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 08:50 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Mike Chambers wrote:
> 
> > ... He wrote a frickin paper (and it was to HIM not really US), to
> > outline about dd, and he was just posting to help pick at it a
> > little.  Help correct it and leave it alone.  That is up to him to
> > follow your advice.  If you try and he don't, then fine leave it
> > alone and don't reply anymore.
> 
>   i appreciate your playing peacemaker, mike, but there's a
> significant difference between:
> 
> 1) posting a tutorial-in-progress and asking readers for help in
> filling in the blanks, and
> 
> 2) posting an apparently completed tutorial and getting readers to
> correct the perpetual (and potentially dangerous) errors therein.
> 
>   and as long as karl insists on following strategy 2), he should get
> smacked for it.  and, on that note, i've had my say, and will now go
> off and add karl to the killfile.  life is just too short, as they
> say.
> 
> rday
> 
> ========================================================================
> Robert P. J. Day
> Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
> Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
> 
> http://crashcourse.ca
> ========================================================================
> 

I haven't had any bandwidth to keep up on this thread...looks like I
missed a "spirited discussion."  ;-]

-- Mark C. Allman, PMP
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