Chris Uppal wrote:
>>Ramon F Herrera wrote:
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Please note that the above post was both cross-posted *and* multi-posted, and
consider the implications thereof before spending your own time replying.
-- chris
Ramon F Herrera wrote:
>Thank you very much, Mister Vigilante. I realized that the Linux crowd
didn't have much use to discuss this post in a professional manner.
Then, some anal retentive folks like yourself want to tell the teacher
who is misbehaving.
The implications are that whoever replies from the more serious groups
(any group outside COLA) will actually have a chance to discuss the
material from MIT (where I work) in a rational manner.
Kirit Sælensminde wrote:
If it was a serious attempt to start a discussion then putting more
than just a link in the post would have been the sensible way to not
make it look like a troll or spam.
Avoiding trollish behavior like insults /ad hominem/ would help your case,
too, Senor Herrera.
In any community one should adhere to the politesse of that community. Usenet
decorum precludes multi-posting. That is well established and well documented.
You'll catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. Being rude and
insulting doesn't exactly entice.
I for one didn't even bother clicking your link, for the reason Kirit pointed
out and because of the warning about your trollish spamlike behavior, and
seeing that your response leapt right into a flamewar ignition, I never will.
If you deem that small loss, well, you really don't know if I could have
contributed, and I probably represent a significant number of people attuned
to netiquette and scams who also will not. Where one cockroach appears,
another hundred like me are probably hidden within the walls.
Interesting that you lambast the "Linux crowd" in a message I found in a
newsgroup unrelated to Linux. In fact, none of the cross-posted groups are
Linux boards.
Oh, and Chris didn't tell the "teacher" who was misbehaving, he warned all the
students. Thank you, Chris. The blame goes not to the one who warns, but the
one who misbehaves.
- Lew