On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:20:52AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:36:23PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> I suppose it's possible this is how they were reading the "Dunc-Bank" > >> QA effort to find RC bugs, but if so, I think they were misreading the > >> spirit of that effort > > > I think that the first two sentences on http://dunc-bank.zoy.org/ have > > any potential of being mis-read. Dunc-Bank looks like a desperate effort > > to make the current dunc-tank experiment fail masquerading behind a > > generally good idea. Thankfully, the web page makes it pretty clear what > > dunc-bank's real objective is. > > I read it as humor, but possibly that's helped by seeing it when it was > originally proposed and seeing people take it in a fairly light-hearted > fashion. As it was reported by some survey this year, internet communication does not usually convey the emotional content of the message even if it includes smileys. The report said that about 1/2 the time both the sender and receiver were in agrement as to how a message was intended to be read. This just confirms it for me. In the internet age, why are reporter still unwilling to simply email to originator and ask? Its not like we have body guards or secretaries to get past or you need to pay to send a message :-) -Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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