On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:41:36 +0200, Molle Bestefich wrote: > Exeter wrote: >> If you don't like attitude why post in usenet? >> It's not like this is a mailing list. > > Rating: +4, funny :) No not really. Why does winehq feel that they can take over a usenet group to propigate their posts? If they want a forum let them set up their own. If they want to tell usenet users of the forum let them post a weekly message. If they want to send their responders posts out to the world at least let them know they are now posting in usenet. > David Shaw wrote: >> The kind of totally unprovoked abuse which we were >> commenting on does not demonstrate either moral, technical or >> evolutionary superiority over the rest of us mere mortals - rather, it >> simply demonstrates superior ignorance > > OTOH, unprovoked abuse and superior ignorance CAN be funny. > It's fun to watch and it's fun to do (for fun, not if you ARE > ignorant), and as long as the other party agrees to it, it's no harm > either, except for the spam factor for those that do not think it's > fun to watch. > > I'm not defending Segin here - his comments were totally uncalled for. > > I'm saying that I did like the old FidoNet way of doing things. > You would have discussion forums for this and that, and then you'd > have a special "flames" subcategory where heated discussions and > unprovoked attacks were deferred. > > An argument starts getting heated? Everyone else just said "take it > to flames" and off they go. Either ends up with them agreeing, or a > major flamefest. In cases where it ends in flamefest, it's rather fun > to watch (or even join) if you're in that mood. The end result is > that nobody has to deal with emotional buildup - you can let > everything out in .flames. > > (There was of course also those that didn't subscribe to .flames - in > those cases, when people said "take it to flames", the argument would > per definition just end there with an "ok, nuff said" or something. > Nobody actually carried it on, since everyone understood that personal > attacks belonged there.) So this is what usenet needs. A group that did not have flames having flames brought to them by a "private subscription" mailing list. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
