On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 09:50:27 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Matthew Wilcox writes: >>> I'm so thoroughly disgusted by you and the actions of people like >>> you that I've stopped working on Debian. nice job, wanker. >> That is the sole content of Matthew Wilcox's message to me, apart >> from some quoted text from debian-private, which I have removed. >> Normally I wouldn't publish private email but I think in this case >> the abusive nature warrants it. > Two wrongs didn't really make a right here, IMO, and I'm not talking > about publication of private e-mail. Losing one's temper and > insulting one's colleagues in e-mail isn't okay, but neither is > deciding to escalate an already angry situation by trying to > humiliate someone in public for losing their temper. Nothing good > is going to come from that. In my experience, turning the other cheek ends up in getting two smarting cheeks and little else. There has to be _some_ disincentive for people initiating and perpetuating such overt abuse; some negative conditioning so that they don't spew off quite so unrestrainedly in the future. Could you suggest what form this negative conditioning should take? manoj -- Ninety percent of everything is crap. Theodore Sturgeon Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]