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[Nathan Haines]

On 08/14/2010 08:28 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
>
> I'm on my android, please excuse its handling of emails.
>

I suppose that's fair enough.  I'll excuse the top-posting, too, then.  
I read your email on my Android phone and then went to my computer desk 
to actually reply.  I'm not very impressed that you would criticise 
Elanor while doing the exact same thing and then blame your email 
client.  You can use the [X] on the Quoted Text header to remove quoted 
text, by the way.

As a member of the LoCo Council, I would expect you to be a little more 
understanding of possible language barriers when reading an email and 
not to immediately resort to passive-aggresive accusations.  It's really 
tacky.

The crazy thing is that you might have just replied in this manner and 
avoided calling Elanor's character into question altogether:

"While we have posted a notice on the Ubuntu Translators list, I think 
this is a great opportunity for LoCo teams to get together and work on a 
bite-sized project that can immediately benefit themselves and introduce 
team members to the fun of translation.  That's why I sent a call of 
action to this list as well."

Of course, I have no idea if something did get posted to Ubuntu 
Translators because I am not fluent enough in Spanish or German to be 
useful there.  But really I'm disappointed in the tone of your reply.  I 
think we would all do well to think of the Ubuntu Code of Conduct before 
we hit Send.

Regards,
Nathan

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Nathan Haines
Ubuntu California Local Community Team