On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:57:15PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:41:58 +0000 > Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:17:13PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:27:55PM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > > > > Actually, I don't know since I'm not long enough involved to know > > > > what happened "back then". > > > > > > It's called research. > > > > It's called manners. > > Yes, manners relating to actually thinking whether the idea has been > considered before and typing something into Google? How hard is that? Manners > involves consideration for others - that includes what is likely to have > happened before some arbitrary point in time and considering that people more > knowledgeable than yourself may just have considered the problem at some point > before you became aware of the problem, maybe?
Of course! I'm not going to argue with that. However, just because one person has made a faux pas, does not give blanket permission for other people to follow suit. This inevitably causes a chain reaction of rudeness and flames. As a community, we would do well to be a little more tolerant of others, and that includes their mistakes. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
