Neal Becker Software Package..?

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 9 19:19:36 UTC 2012


On 2012/01/09 09:19, Claude Jones wrote:
> On 1/7/2012 4:55 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> Which is not what you said; you made a Great Big Fscking Deal out of the
>> fact that you "need to log in," which as I pointed out is false for most
>> people. Now, if you're so lazy that you can't be arsed......
>
> what I said in my original defense of my post re: Christopher's assertion on
> fora vs mail-lists - "the phrasing is precisely the kind of sophomoric posturing
> that leads to endless disputes"
>
> Perhaps my choice of words in the original reply to Christopher Svanefalk which
> triggered this side thread was inappropriate, but my concern for what it might
> trigger was not
>
> Now, suppose I posted the following:
>
> "Gnome3, after suitable configuration, is the greatest desktop environment ever
> created for Linux"
>
> Declarations of this type are never useful - I rest...

That needs to be wrapped in an IMAO and a YMMV disclaimer pair. Otherwise it
overruns into a religious war. We have enough of that going on around us. We
don't need to create our own rwars.

{^_-}


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