Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the early 2006, I complained privately about the sarcastic tone of > one of the answers he made to me on -devel, and I guess that I hurted > him more strongly than if I had done this publicly, because I received > insults on his blog in return.
I said "Drop him a private email discussing your concerns", not "Misinterpret what Anthony said, decide that an off-hand comment is an insult and then bitch at him via private email". There's a fairly important difference there. For what it's worth, I'm not keen on the way Anthony dealt with your email. On the other hand, nor do I think your initial email to him was in any way appropriate. However, I don't see him joining threads purely in order to everyone that disagreeing with you may result in personal attacks via private email. And nor do I see him publically attacking people and then asking for any responses to be private. My response to Bill was purely based on the fact that he has criticised Anthony several times during the past couple of weeks, but that no useful discussion has arisen from this. Private email seems like a somewhat better mechanism for discussing this sort of thing than public email - there's less risk of it escalating. Do you have any reason to believe that Anthony would feel any desire to repost private mail that made reasonable arguments, rather than, say, accusing him of ad-hominem attacks for no obvious reason whatsoever[1]? If not, why did you post it? [1] As a hint for answering this question, consider the amount of private mail received by Anthony. Consider the amount of it that has been published on his blog. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
