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> Twice today I responded to rude messages (once here, once on the SpamBayes
> list) whose authors didn't deserve the benefit of my time. In both cases,
> other people rightfully responded with some small amount of return venom
> (but provided useful responses noneth
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:23:46 -0500, Rocco Moretti wrote:
>
>
>>Professionals (and even decent hobbyists) don't
>>escalate flame wars, even unintentionally.
>
>
> You don't get out much, do you? *wink*
>
> If your comment is meant to be _prescriptive_ rather than _desc
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:24:06 -0400, Asad Habib wrote:
> Well, even if you are a hobbyist, that does not excuse you from being
> civil. After all, we are all humans beings that deserve to be treated with
> respect. Professional, hobbyist, vagabond, ogre, instigator, troll ...
> THERE IS NO EXCUSE .
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:23:46 -0500, Rocco Moretti wrote:
> Professionals (and even decent hobbyists) don't
> escalate flame wars, even unintentionally.
You don't get out much, do you? *wink*
If your comment is meant to be _prescriptive_ rather than _descriptive_, I
don't entirely agree.
Flame
I was explaining the difference between irony and sarcasm to my
daughter just the other day. It was nice of Asad to provide us with
such a besutiful example. Not that I'm sure that was his intent...
Jeff
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Asad Habib wrote:
> Well, even if you are a hobbyist, that does not excuse you from being
> civil. After all, we are all humans beings that deserve to be treated with
> respect. Professional, hobbyist, vagabond, ogre, instigator, troll ...
> THERE IS NO EXCUSE ... please treat others with respect.
Well, even if you are a hobbyist, that does not excuse you from being
civil. After all, we are all humans beings that deserve to be treated with
respect. Professional, hobbyist, vagabond, ogre, instigator, troll ...
THERE IS NO EXCUSE ... please treat others with respect.
- Asad
On Thu, 28 Jul 2
Asad Habib wrote:
> I agree with Mustafa. After all, we are a bunch of professionals and not
> vagabonds hired to take pot shots at one another.
Except that we're not all professionals. There are a large number of
hobbyists who use Python and this list.
At any rate, my suggestion was not to fors
Asad Habib wrote:
> What, do you not consider yourself a professional?
Not really, no.
> Just because you are in
> academia does not justify attacking people on a mailing list and then
> justifying your attack with Harter's quote!
Uh, it was a joke. A self-denigrating joke. I was calling *myself
What, do you not consider yourself a professional? Just because you are in
academia does not justify attacking people on a mailing list and then
justifying your attack with Harter's quote! Life is more than a quote -
look outside your academic cocoon and you will realize what I mean.
- Asad
On T
Asad Habib wrote:
> I agree with Mustafa. After all, we are a bunch of professionals and not
> vagabonds hired to take pot shots at one another.
Speak for yourself. ;-)
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Robert Kern
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"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
Are the graves of dreams allowed to die.
I agree with Mustafa. After all, we are a bunch of professionals and not
vagabonds hired to take pot shots at one another.
- Asad
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, mustafa wrote:
> Rocco Moretti wrote:
> > projecktzero wrote:
> >
> >>but..but...It's so much more fun to unleash your anger and fire back
> >>w
Rocco Moretti wrote:
> projecktzero wrote:
>
>>but..but...It's so much more fun to unleash your anger and fire back
>>with all guns blazing fanning the flame war that most discussion groups
>>degenerate into after a couple of responses. =)
>>
>>Actually, I had some self restraint yesterday. I want
projecktzero wrote:
> but..but...It's so much more fun to unleash your anger and fire back
> with all guns blazing fanning the flame war that most discussion groups
> degenerate into after a couple of responses. =)
>
> Actually, I had some self restraint yesterday. I wanted to write a
> ripping re
Sounds more like fighting fire with... water?
Sounds good to me.
-- Paul
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but..but...It's so much more fun to unleash your anger and fire back
with all guns blazing fanning the flame war that most discussion groups
degenerate into after a couple of responses. =)
Actually, I had some self restraint yesterday. I wanted to write a
ripping response to an antagonistic flame
Twice today I responded to rude messages (once here, once on the SpamBayes
list) whose authors didn't deserve the benefit of my time. In both cases,
other people rightfully responded with some small amount of return venom
(but provided useful responses nonetheless).
Let me suggest that there is
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