On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 03:14:05PM +0200, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 08:59:43PM +1000, James Mills wrote:
> > Hi :)
> >
> > Firstly let me apologize for Walter. His tone was a little negative to say
> > the least.
> > (I try to make an effort myself to maintain a peaceful and civilized
> > community for us CRUXers)
> > (I think we all do!)
> >
>
> No, no, no.  You're offending me, sir!  Just keeding.
>
> I could take your top-posting, James, by another example of what
> friendly interfaces do with people.  That may offend you like happened
> with Jideel and you may try to explain me all your curriculum and that
> top-posting is your "personal preference", etc, etc.  But this is a
> mailing list, it's not about someone in particular, those bad practices
> are just examples.  I'm not being rude with someone in particular.  And
> my rudeness is not an action but a reaction to the whole scenario I
> described.  Following with the email formating example, the true is that
> bad practices are not someone personal preferences, they were imposed by
> ignorant, mobster, rude programmers (Outlook, Yahoo, Gmail) and adopted
> by lazy users.  Translate this example to all software development and
> computer use along the last decades.  The whole scenario is rude,
> destructive, disrespectful, arrogant and, what is worse, innocent.  That
> people egocentric innocence is what makes them think the rude it's me
> just for criticizing it.  Someone really wise (who learned from
> experience) should understand that my reaction is justified.
>
> I am not negative, I am realistic.  I am sure of what I see.  And no,
> that doesn't help in life :).
>
> By the way, Xfce is a fully featured desktop environment.  That's
> negative.
>
>
>       Walter

Top posting is the correct way to post to a mailinglist, sure. But try
to live with this in a corporate environment. It's impossible.

So please try to keep a friendly tone on the mailinglist and please try
to not jump to judgement.

This thread is now totally off topic and quite pointless. Please let it
die

--

Fredrik Rinnestam

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