Sometimes the best response is *silence*. Which, seen as a rule, I of course is violating now. But the damage is already done.
Regards Thomas Berg ________________________________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist z/OS/IT Delivery SWEDBANK AB (Publ) > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > För zMan > Skickat: den 21 januari 2013 19:43 > Till: [email protected] > Ämne: Re: Passing of Chris Mason reported > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Ian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Firstly, My condolences to the Mason family. > > > > In my opinion it is very bad taste to use a threat announcing the > > passing of a member of this list as a vehicle to parade ones mastery > > of several languages and chastise others in there lack of mastery in > > the use of language(s). > > > > None of us follows this list to get language lectures. This is > > IBM-Main a mainframe related discussion list made up of people from > > all walks of life and most of them do not have english as their first > > language. To make that assumption is arrogant and rude. > > > You are, of course, correct. > You are, of course, also bailing the ocean -- the pedants and > troublemakers on this list are beyond help.They often seem to want to > provoke others, and when challenged directly, step away. They're just > trolls. > Some of them also whine occasionally about being unable to find work. > There couldn't possibly be a connection between their behavior and that > problem, of course... > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
