On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 13:57 -0500, Dale J. Chatham wrote: > Had the original admonishment been made in private This also comes up from time to time. It is a good thing to occasionally publicly say don't top list, so that more than one person sees the information. Usually the correction is simply pointing this out, and not actually a dressing down. Often the person being corrected gets all uppity, and turns it into a flame war. Thus far, I see the overreaction has been the original poster getting all defensive, instead of just switching posting modes to suit. And if they'd actually read the guidelines before romping into the list, they wouldn't have needed correcting, anyway. So they've only got themselves to blame, ultimately. You can consider /that/ to be a chastisement, and a duly earned one, too. As a seasoned poster you should know better than to ignore the guidelines, for a list that you've joined, and then to argue about them when pointed out to you. If people simply switched styles to accommodate the guidelines, when pointed out to them, instead of starting a flame war about having to switch guidelines, which one or two dissenters always have to join in and grumble about anybody having to adhere to any guidelines, none of us would be having this conversation. Them's the guidelines (link below), follow them. All the dissenters shutup whinging about them, and shutup whinging about being told to follow the guidelines. If you don't want to fit in, then go elsewhere. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
