kubutnu-users-owner (was Re: Intersting.......)

[Basil Chupin]

On 10/11/13 17:42, Clay Weber wrote:

*WARNING!* *WARNING!* *WARNING!*

Corresponding with me publicly in this list may be injurious to your health!

(I have been, ~several minutes ago, MODERATED in the Ubuntu list, for 
being "A very naughty boy!"[#])

*WARNING!* *WARNING!* *WARNING!*

> On Sunday, November 10, 2013 04:21:30 PM Basil Chupin wrote:
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> > On 09/11/13 09:16, Clay Weber wrote:
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> > > On Friday, November 08, 2013 05:50:28 PM Basil Chupin wrote:
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> > > > OK, but was there any need to send private mail to begin with?
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> > > >
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> > > >
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> > > >
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> > > > Just asking.
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> > >
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> > > Sure! Isn't it more polite or proper to keep such things off the list
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> > > itself?
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> >
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> > If the post was really meant as a private, "in your ear whisper",
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> > message about a most serious matter then I wouldn't have made my 
> comment.
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> >
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> > But the post was also cross-posted to what I now found out was the
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> > private moderator mail list which, therefore, advised them, basically,
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> > "This is what I have just sent this person to put him in his place.
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> > Watch out for his future behaviour and we can then put him on the "To be
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> > Moderated list if he doesn't behave or bar him from the list".
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> This is a gross overreaction, and nowhere near reality. Moderating, 
> let alone banning users is an extreme that is, well, an extreme rarity.
>

Yeah, OK, all right already...... "is an extreme"...

"'Extreme' is in the eye of the beholder.'" :-)

> > Just a couple of comments here. If I send a private message to someone
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> > relating to a matter mentioned in a thread I will start my message with
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> > words which indicate in no doubt that I am sending a private, off the
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> > list, message
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> I can agree with this.
>

A breath of fresh air is ever so nice......


> > and if anyone has any idea of netiquette then they will
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> > know that the contents of the message cannot be made public without the
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> > sender's approval.
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> >
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> > The second comment is that I will answer public messages publicly and
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> > private messages privately.
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> >
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> > > > (I'll have to refine my filter in Thunderbird because if it sees
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> > > >
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> > > > "kubuntu" it throws mail to 'kubuntu-users'
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> > > >
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> > > >
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> > > >
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> > > > And I didn't know about the social divide between the riff-raff 
> who use
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> > > >
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> > > > the list [kubuntu-users] and those who own it [kubuntu-users-owner]
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> > > :
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> > > :-) .
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> > >
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> > > I lol'd at that :)
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> > >
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> > > list-owner is simply an email for list *admin* messages and the like,
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> > > such as spam, subscription/unsub, errors, and other notifications. It
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> > > is also a handy way to help inform someone that the message is from a
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> > > list admin, instead of someone the recipient may not know.
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> >
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> > Then change the name to something along the lines of "admin" and not
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> > "owners".
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> >
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> > > All simple and above board, actually. And I am still riff-raff most of
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> > > the time, especially when I dance the Time Warp :p
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> > >
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> > > (I am using the list and my own email as I am not at my own computer
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> > > at the moment and can't recall the credentials.)
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> >
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> > I take it from this that you are using it now as one of us plebs, right?
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> I have never *not* been one, believe it or not. Same for Myriam.
>

Noted....

> >
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> > :-) And I therefore salute you!:-)
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> And I salute you back :)
>

We can go on like this for a long time...... But this must stop 
otherwise there are those who may become very suspicious, you know........


> Now, I am off to give my lady in NSW a ring. It's half past one in the 
> morning here; I think I should have done that before attending to 
> emails, lol!
>

Oh dear! You ARE in trouble! Hope you survive - or at least recover with 
all faculties still functioning adequately from the verbal bruising! :-)


[#] "Life of Brian", Monty Python, 1979.

BC

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