GuTSy is slow!

[Mario Vukelic]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 22:02 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Yeah.  Mario and I have been having a heated disagreement - but I'm
> not offended, and I hope he isn't either.  I thought one acronym was
> over the top, that's all :-)

No I'm not, and I don't even think it was all that heated. I just
stopped replying to this thread in order to not let it get out of hand
and to appease those that had a problem with it. Sorry to have offended
you with the acronym, i didn't even think twice about it;  seemed to be
normal online conversation to me :) 

It's sometimes difficult to judge what is offending. For example, when I
replied with the acronym, you had first written damn this, ridiculous
that, bloated something other, and I found _that offending at the time.
But it's equally nothing to get all worked up about it :)

And I dunno what the fuss about the thread was about anyway. Certainly I
sometimes go off on tangents and don't always strictly use the list for
strictly help only, but even at the height of our argument I included
pointers to how to easily disable the services you were complaining
about, and I hope they were helpful although they referenced how it
works in Gnome.

Anyway, according to Google I have posted ca. 2500 messages to the list,
and it's just bound to happen that sometimes one comments on stuff one
comes across, even though it might not be strictly help. I'm also not
the only one, much "worse" and longer-running threads than our little
skirmish (which took what, 4 posts?) exist right at this moment. It's
normal and makes the list lively and a nice place to be. I don't get
paid for this, and while I do understand and try to follow the
etiquette, I still won't treat this like a corporate helpdesk job.
Also, I like to think that the majority of my posts is helpful.

We won't resolve our dispute here, so I won't comment on it further. I
hope that some time I will have a chance to meet all of you frequent
contributors IRL over a few $PREFERRED_STIMULANTS.