Starting point - On 12/08 18:11:15, Nicholas Wastell wrote: [ in response to Graham ] > If you don't like the rtfm questions, don't answer them. There are, > fortunately, some folks on the list with an ounce of patience and > good manners.
Hmmmmm. Gee, that was subtle. :) Valentin (quite reasonably, in my opinion) responded - On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:23:56 +0200 "Valentin Villenave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham will probably not answer that, but... if you had been > following discussions on -user and -devel for more than a few > months, I think you would feel sorry for having written that. [ snip ] > Hint: please have a look at > http://schlitt.info/applications/blog/index.php?/archives/541-10-golden-rules-for-starting-with-open-source.html > (I learned a lot from this page in my days). Nicholas didn't seem to appreciate the diplomatic offer of a way out of his hole and instead kept digging - On 13/08 09:41:09, Nicholas Wastell wrote: > Don't patronise me, don't make excuses for Graham and I stand by > what I wrote. (...Oookaaaaay....) And now in response to Sven's question: On 13/08 12:10:14, Sven Axelsson wrote: > 2008/8/13 Valentin Villenave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I know I should probably not feed the troll here, but let me > > remind you that there's also > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user-fr ; last time I > > checked it was still safe from big evil Graham (if anything). > > Well, that's an example of hostility on the list right there. Hardly hostility - Nicholas *did* say he didn't want to be patronised. Gentle mocking is an entirely reasonable response to such a request (when justified by the requestor's behaviour). > What was trollish in Nicholas post I wonder? Making a fairly obvious insinuation that Graham doesn't have an ounce of patience or good manners. It's the sort of thing that you only add if you're trying to take a shot at someone and spark a response (the definitive trollish action). I'd qualify that a bit from Valentin's comment though - an isolated trollish remark doesn't necessarily make you a Genuine Troll(tm). We can all be a little trollish at times. :-) > Sven Axelsson Pete, glowering from under his bridge. -- What part of "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" don't you understand? _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
