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[Derek Broughton]

Oliver Grawert wrote:

> hi,
> Am Donnerstag, den 11.05.2006, 11:54 -0300 schrieb Derek Broughton:
>> Actually, it was as funny as the previous poster deserved.  He might just
>> have taken offence - people can get very annoyed by the inappropriate use
>> of "Jesus".  OK, Joel's post may have amounted to spam, but there's a
>> legitimate argument that it was relevant to each of the lists to which he
>> posted and a polite rebuke would have been far more appropriate.
> joel opened 3 threads today, all crossposted to ~5 lists, he was asked
> several times in -devel to stop it and didnt even react. neither did he
> react on requests to please not post potentially harmful scripts to the
> -users list. pissing off the whole developer team through ignorance
> simply isnt fun.

So you think it's alright to piss off everybody _else_?  I don't personally
care how the name "Jesus" is used, but I know many people who are offended
by it.  It's ironic that the front-line defence against somebody
cross-posting (which, imo, is not a bad thing) is to further offend.
-- 
derek