On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > >> On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:48:14 +0100, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar said: >> >> > oh man you have gained prominence in vger? >> > They have banned you from vger. >> >> Wow. I've been around for a dozen years or so, and can't remember >> *that* ever happening before. That takes some *major* doing, and >> could take literally years to straighten out. How to approach that? > > *sigh* ... the fact that nick has, *single-handedly*, pissed off and > wasted the time of numerous subsystem maintainers to the point where > he has been banned from LKML and has, in addition, *single-handedly* > turned the kernel newbies mailing list into his personal self-help > playground means that he needs to be shown the door. > > i don't want to sound unsympathetic, but it doesn't *matter* if this > is nick's fault or not -- he is, quite simply, a disruptive influence > and is, at the moment, turning this mailing list into chaos. > > people are asking, can he be salvaged? to which the proper answer > is, who cares? there are a *lot* of kernel newbies out there who would > desperately like to get to the point where *they* can start submitting > patches, and most of *those* people are willing to read and listen and > follow the advice of the veterans to the point where they become > useful contributors. nick is not. > > it's massively ironic that countless people have told nick what he > should be doing, to which his inveitable response is, "ok, but what > should i be doing?" > > if you want to help nick, knock yourself out but take it offline. > nick has already wasted far too much bandwidth that could have been > invested in helping newbies that are willing to *listen*. > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > Robert, I am trying to listen now and this was my fault. Regards Nick _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
