On 9/17/05, Steven Vishoot <sir_funzone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > We are trying to prevent comments to this list, like
> > the couple we had
> > already, saying that there are people not using
> > CentOS because there are
> > people here who want to flame and be assholes to
> > each other.
> >
> > Assholes will not be allowed to post to the lists
> > anymore ... period.
> >
We all have a chance to learn from this interchange. As I said in a
previous post, Linux, IMHO, is all about helping one another. A
summary of the thread: question asked (innocent enough but without
enough detail), direct on the money responses, a take your business
elsewhere response (even if that was not what was intended) , and then
a lot of heated interchanges.
It's all a matter of tone. There's a big diffeence (at least for new
users to Linux and CentOS) between: "Go ask your question on another
list - we don't care" and "I think you might try this ... and, by the
way, you might find more help on this topic on the ... list." I would
hope to see more of the latter responses.
Don't feed the assholes, and don't treat anyone who asks an innocent
question like an asshole.
--
Collins Richey
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
smart enough to debug it.
-Brian Kernighan
