On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 10:32 -0600, Robert wrote: > Just one thought.... > > Anyone who feels abused or belittled should really have a look at a few > other technical lists. One that comes to mind immediately is the > Slackware list along about the time that RH8 was announced. It was bad. > I unsubscribed after a day or two and made up my mind I'd drive RH7.3 > 'til the wheels fell off before I'd paint myself into the corner of > depending on *that* bunch of hooligans for answers to my questions. I came to the same conclusion about Sendmail because of the horrible attitudes I saw on the Postfix mailing list. Are you saying that because people are jerks on other lists it's OK to be a jerk here? Or that because maybe the jerk to nice guy ratio is better here that we should count ourselves lucky? I have to disagree. > Face it, the people who provide most of the answers to technical > questions spend more time honing their technical skills than attending > Charm School. That's just the nature of the beast. It doesn't make it right. Life's too short - be nice to each other. How hard is it to be nice? Is it really that much of an imposition? Thomas
