On 08 Jul 2004, at 18:38, Stephen McConnell wrote:
Brian McCallister wrote:As an innocent bystander of the flamewar that spawned this email:
Nicola commented on some technical changes, it started deteriorating into shed painting, Nicola posted an email on de-escalating conflict in technical discussions, then Stephen attacked Nicola directly for some as-yet-unspecified ("you know why, Nicola") historical reason that Nicola is not allowed to suggest ways to de-escalate conflict.
Actually - what I said was that
"Nicola is 100% familiar with the reasons why he is the last person on the planet to assume any authority on [the subject of deescalation]"
I would call that more of an "observation" rather than an "attack". I'm confident Nicola understands and appreciates that distinction.
Please, not here. I'm quite confident that a good portion of the inhabitants of this list doesn't care much about who is going to "win" this flamefest. At least I am not, and I can imagine that neither general@ nor [EMAIL PROTECTED] are to be bothered with thread fallout debris like this. It ain't fun nor educating to watch.
Oh: I'm not taking sides... *shrug*.
</Steven> -- Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source Java & XML An Orixo Member Read my weblog at http://blogs.cocoondev.org/stevenn/ stevenn at outerthought.org stevenn at apache.org
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