On Apr 2, 2004, Brian Bober <netdemonz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Alexander certainly isn't ignorant. > I can guarantee that I am not ignorant either. Yet he questioned > whether I am ignorant or not. Consider that Alexander Dalloz is probably not a native speaker. Even though he seems to do a good job at speaking English, he might have chosen a word that didn't quite mean what he meant to say. Take into account that `ignorant' isn't necessarily offensive. One of the meanings of this word, given by the Webster dictionary, is `uninformed'. Obviously, since you've been posting questions about test releases in a list meant for discussion about stable releases, you are (or were :-) ignorant, at least in this regard. He's been trying to inform you. Maybe even without having realized you were the same person to whom he'd sent earlier messages in the same day, since he does a lot of it to a lot of newcomers. Now consider that, instead of `Are you just ignorant?', he'd phrased the question like this: `Did you just not know that this list is for stable releases only?' Would you find that offensive? If not, just pretend he did so (even if he didn't! Give him the benefit of the doubt) and let's move on. Perhaps we should create a fedora-flames for this kind of discussion? :-) :-) >> In my opinion he adds more value than anyone else, with his >> knowledge, helpfullness and his contant battle to try and encourage >> netiquette. Seconded. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
