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Re: [OT] Netiquette
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Sam Steingold |
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Re: [OT] Netiquette |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:43:01 -0400 |
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> * Alastair Houghton <address@hidden> [2006-06-14 16:31:03 +0100]:
>
> On 14 Jun 2006, at 13:04, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>>>>> Anyway, to be clear, I'm really not interested in debating this
>>>> Well, you started it to begin with.
>>> No, I didn't.
>> Yes, you did,
>
> I most certainly did not. All *I* did was complain that I didn't like
> your remark; I didn't invite and don't care for a discussion on the
> subject.
this constitutes a start in the debate of netiquette, IMHO.
FWIW, I agree that whatever people do reflects on their uniform
(including e-mail domain), but I see nothing wrong in telling someone
that the answer to his question is covered in the manual, except that I
prefer to see a URL next to the note to RTFM.
> At this point I'm thoroughly fed-up, so:
>
> 1. I won't be contributing to Emacs in future. Instead, I'll either
> keep my changes to myself or I'll go back to XEmacs.
>
> 2. If I see *any* further email on this topic, I will withdraw my
> current patch and won't be signing any copyright assignment forms. E-
> mail about the patch itself is, of course, fine.
I doubt that these kinds of threats will win you any friends here or
elsewhere.
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- Re: asm-mode patch to allow per-file comment character setting from file locals, (continued)
- Re: asm-mode patch to allow per-file comment character setting from file locals, David Kastrup, 2006/06/12
- Re: asm-mode patch to allow per-file comment character setting from file locals, Alastair Houghton, 2006/06/13
- Re: asm-mode patch to allow per-file comment character setting from file locals, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/06/13
- [OT] Netiquette (was: Re: asm-mode patch to allow per-file comment character setting from file locals), Alastair Houghton, 2006/06/13
- Re: [OT] Netiquette (was: Re: asm-mode patch to allow per-file comment character setting from file locals), Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2006/06/13
- Re: [OT] Netiquette (was: Re: asm-mode patch to allow per-file comment character setting from file locals), Alastair Houghton, 2006/06/14
- Re: [OT] Netiquette (was: Re: asm-mode patch to allow per-file comment character setting from file locals), Eli Zaretskii, 2006/06/13
- Re: [OT] Netiquette (was: Re: asm-mode patch to allow per-file comment character setting from file locals), Alastair Houghton, 2006/06/14
- Re: [OT] Netiquette, David Kastrup, 2006/06/14
- Re: [OT] Netiquette, Alastair Houghton, 2006/06/14
- Re: [OT] Netiquette,
Sam Steingold <=
- Re: [OT] Netiquette, Alastair Houghton, 2006/06/14
- Re: [OT] Netiquette, Sam Steingold, 2006/06/14
- Re: [OT] Netiquette, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2006/06/14
- Re: [OT] Netiquette, Chong Yidong, 2006/06/14
- Re: [OT] Netiquette, David Kastrup, 2006/06/14
- Re: [OT] Netiquette, Alastair Houghton, 2006/06/14
- Re: [OT] Netiquette, Sam Steingold, 2006/06/14
- Re: [OT] Netiquette, Richard Stallman, 2006/06/15
- Re: [OT] Netiquette, Alastair Houghton, 2006/06/15
- Re: [OT] Netiquette, Richard Stallman, 2006/06/16