[OT] Re: Login on Fedora 17

[Joel Rees]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
> On 04/11/2012 04:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
>>
>> He says you've misinterpreted him, which is another communication sin
>> (in that it doesn't lead to communication) that we are all sometimes
>> prone to.
>
>
> As I wrote before, I wasn't personally offended by it,

Yeah, I was thinking I maybe should put a "I'm not talking to you,
Jeff." at the top.

> but I've seen enough
> people on this list recently being (what I consider) unreasonably
> thin-skinned that I was fairly sure that somebody was going to find it
> offensive.  I also know full well that if the OP was, in fact, trying to be
> insulting he wouldn't care when I pointed it out, but if it was accidental
> my comment might be all that was needed to avoid further incidents.

The danger with sarcasm. Heh.

> And, yes, in this case, the question wasn't F17 specific, just phrased that
> way and in any event, I don't mind the occasional question of that nature
> although I rarely if ever have anything to contribute to such discussions.
>  The whole point of my post, in fact, was to point out that we're getting
> more questions about the next Fedora release than we usually do and to
> wonder why.  Any thoughts about that?

Well, I could use the positive mental attitude approach and assume
that more of the users are getting the courage up to go help test?

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Joel Rees