On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 07:42:44PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 06:56:16PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > > Abuse is never justified, I hope that's clear for everybody. > > Depends on details of your definition of abuse. > > > So we are down to the definition of verbal abuse. > > The Oxford dictionary gives me: > > > > "speak to (someone) in an insulting and offensive way" > > Insufficient details to tell if the statement above is correct. > Insulting and offensive to *whom*? It's not helpful to look at a dictionary definition of verbal abuse, because it's much too short. Here's a much longer description of verbally abusive behaviors: http://outofthefog.net/CommonBehaviors/VerbalAbuse.html Key ones that apply to LKML communications: belittlement, demeaning statements, hysteria, name-calling, raging and violent statements, and mocking sarcasm. Sarah Sharp -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html