rolling Firefox back to 2.x
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Sep 4 13:44:01 UTC 2008
Steve Lamb 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,
Oh sorry. I thought you were smarter than that. Telling somebody to stfu
because you don't like what he's saying, is insulting.
> 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 that isn't going
> to
> ruffle his feathers? I already told him he was wrong in a light-hearted
> tone.
No, you didn't. And light-hearted tones never come through on the Internet,
anyway.
--
derek
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