On Tuesday 11 January 2005 17:42, Nick Pilon wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 21:17:27 +0000, David Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You'll notice this list is fairly low on personal attacks and insults. > > The fact that you seem to send and receive so many points to the fact > > that *you* are doing something wrong, and not that the world is faulty. > > I don't know, I think I'd blow up too after being told that I was too > stupid to post here. I think that assorted list members have been very > impolite to jianan. Sure, some of his questions were rather > simplistic, but none seemed entirely unreasonable to me for a new > Linux user coming from Windows who's never used any non-Windows > systems before. This goes doubly so since it appears that there are > people willing to politely answer his questions and /politely/ suggest > that he poke around a bit more before asking here.
But then some of us who _did_ politely help him, and try to encourage him to post properly, got told off. Nobody personally attacked him, whereas he has (at the very least - I _don't_ read his posts any more) called someone a "big, damn fool". > > What really amuses me is the people yelling at him for wasting > bandwidth... All the while wasting more bandwidth yelling at him than > he wasted asking his original questions. And I haven't seen anyone yell at him for wasting bandwidth - he's been told to ask smarter questions, which is reasonable advice since so many people on the list no longer feel like giving him answers. > > Here's a suggestion to the people attacking jianan - just ignore his > posts in the future. Here's a suggestion to people defending him. Just ignore the whole waste of bandwidth. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
