Mailing List Etiquette (was Re: can't run sshd on 23456 in Fedora 19)

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Tue Jul 9 21:29:53 UTC 2013


On 07/09/2013 02:19 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> In defence of Reindl, I don't see anything wrong with emphasizing words.
> This particular posting did not strike me as "violent and aggressive",
> and I didn't see any profanity in it, let alone "excessive profanity".

And, listing only the emphasized words out of context makes it hard to 
judge why he emphasized them.  I'm not going to accuse the poster in 
question of trying to make things look worse than they were, but it did 
make it much too easy for somebody "coming in late" to get the wrong 
impression.

I'd also like to say that I doubt that Reindl and I would get along very 
well in person, but that I don't care.  He's very knowledgeable, he's 
willing to take the time to help others and for me, at least, that's all 
that matters.


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