rolling Firefox back to 2.x
Nik N
niknot at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 21:49:54 UTC 2008
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Steve Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:07:39PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Well, the "unless you have something meaningful to contribute" is an insult
>> on any list, and I'm sure Steve knows it. otoh, I understand his
>> annoyance. If I used FF more, I'm sure I'd be more annoyed...
>
> No, it's not. It's called a standard that some people tend to ignore,
> If one is spreading bad information, like NoOp did and was told he was doing 2
> messages before that phrase was uttered, generally one isn't contributing
> anything meaningful. How /else/ am I supposed to put it...
This is simple: no poster should never, EVER, direct any comments to the
correspondent directly. If we all considered such posts that use "ad hominem"
arguments ("..you think you know more than you do...") as "unclean" and
simply ignored them, we would achieve much more in a whole lot less time.
Nik N,.
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