On 16/03/2008, Timeout <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> I don't want to point the finger at the person who wrote it.> It was on an answer of a bug (not mine) that I received per E-Mail yesterday because of a comment on it.> I think either the writer of the comment in German will find himself or anyway Dan Kegel because he answered in German that the concerned person made a great job in the patch that was offered.>> It's better not to put too much oil on the fire.> As far as I concerned I removed as many as my comment from Wine as I could because I don't want to see such reaction again on an automatic reply.> The high horse of which you speak is very common in *nix-relatedfields, wine included. In fact, I often find that the wine list israther forgiving in the sense. I recently posted a dupe bug, anddidn't get my head bitten off like I expected when I discovered thatit was a dupe. Also, I recently asked a RTFM question, and got a goodanswer. Of course, I mentioned how I has STFW and could not find theanswer beforehand. A bare _minimum_ of user self-sufficiency should beencouraged. You should see the garbage that gets asked on the OOolist. It only happens because the mods tolarate it. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.comhttp://gibberish.co.ilא-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת; A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
