Mr. Day

[Thomas Cameron]

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