On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:31:43 +0100, David Shaw wrote: > If you'd care to look at the 'signature' that's been appended to your > message, you'll see that - for many of us, at least - this *is* a > mailing list :-) If you would care to look at the headers of the post you will see it came from a usenet group. Why does the mailing list feel they can post their messages to the world in usenet? > Besides, why should it matter where we post? Perhaps because the conventions of a mailing list and a usenet group are not the same. >Such 'attitude' as you > call it is totally uncalled for in *any* situation - personally, I call > it bad manners. 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 (indeed, where I was brought up > in the English Midlands, such behaviour would have been described as > 'pig ignorant'). It is unhelpful, unproductive and totally unneccesary > and there is no logical reason why it should be tolerated. Since the "unprovoked abuse" did not show up in usenet but your whine did it tends to give a bad impression not of the abuser but of you. > David Shaw > >>If you don't like attitude why post in usenet? It's not like >>this is a mailing list. >>_______________________________________________ >>wine-users mailing list >>wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx >>http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >> >> >> _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
