It was not meant to be a thread , but I was simply responding to Derrik Pates regarding the need to observe netiquette (a golden rule of which as I understood it is not to capitalise words which is tantamount to shouting), but as this "thread" is rapidly degenerating into a farce (thanks to Sean Schertell and S. Keeling) an end must be put to it. If the e-mail from Boulou was "useless", the list abounds with scores of such useless postings - including, of course, the current one from your humble servant - received almost on a daily basis. Here is an example that I came across today (so does [EMAIL PROTECTED] get a mouthful from Mr Pye?):
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 3:07 pm Subject: reboot required Resent-From: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Resent-Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 3:24 pm how do i get rid of it With that, I regard this topic - as far as I am concerned - as closed. God bless. -- Ashesh Kumar Datta (aka Adolf Hitler? he must be turning in his grave!) -------------------------- on 21/4/04 12:52 am, David Pye at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > <snip> > I avoided the temptation to apply to your obvious troll, the first time I saw > it, but seeing as this has turned into a thread, I have more motivation to > respond, if just to try to put the matter to sleep. >> >> Absolutely, but the reason for my "diatribe" was the tone of admonition in >> Mr Pye's note. Netiquette is if you can provide help, do so, otherwise >> stay quiet and do not use capital letters to pile on the advice seeker's >> agony. > > Fortunately, I do not have to listen to anybody else's wonderful suggestions > as to how to respond to posters. > > Seeing as you could offer neither help, nor any kind of advice, even if > harshly worded request to use English, and demonstrate some kind of > intelligent thought in phrasing the question, to the original poster, surely > your post is more redundant than mine? > >> Here is what David Pye wrote: >>> c) Even ignoring a and b, you have given insufficient information for >>> anyone to even ATTEMPT to guess what your problem might be. >> >> If someone has "given insufficient information" for the problem to be >> diagnosed, you could - if you have an idea - indicate what further >> information is required. If you have no clue, do not admonish, someone >> else might be able to provide help. If information is insufficient "for >> anyone to even ATTEMPT to guess what [the advice seeker's] problem might >> be", the poor mug will get no response at all from anybody! I understand >> no French myself, so I could not have provided help on this occasion even >> in the unlikely case I knew the solution. > > Unlike you, I am more than able to understand what the poster said, and the > general uselessness of his question is what actually irritated me, *FAR* more > than that it was in French. Had it been a well-written post in French, I > might even have decided to reply to it, rather than point out the posters' > lack of netiquette. > > If more information was needed, then again, some suggestions might have been > offered. But for someone to be deluded enough to think that "My network > doesn't work. Can anyone advise?" is sufficient information, then they > deserve what was, based upon net tradition, a fairly mild admonishment ;) > >> I am a sole Apple Mac user and it is a debian-powerPC list, and even >> Debian on a Wintel machine is not relevant to me or to this list, and >> neither Iraq nor Anglo-American colonial pursuits can even remotely be >> construed to have a relevance here, but I suspect Mr David Pye's wrath was >> about the use of the French language, and wrath has no place in this list >> either. If the language used in a particular posting is inappropriate, it >> is for the custodians of the list to take it up with the poster. > > I dont have any dislike of French - I suspect your paranoia is caused by some > other reason, which I have no intention to delve into here. It appears > obvious to me by your distinctly odd and politically charged reply that you > lack familiarity with the internet mailing lists, and their general standard > of discussion, or debate. > > I speak reasonable French, and have no dislike of it whatsoever, and in this > case, you are better off keeping your mistaken 'suspicions' of people's > intentions to yourself. Rather than flagging up my suspected prejudice, you > have rather more revealed your own. > >> >> -- Ashesh Kumar Datta > > Anyway, as a suggestion I spotted in a previous post pointed out: > > Adolf Hitler > Nazism > > Godwin's law. > > Seeing as this discourse moves in no direction towards Debian PPC greatness, > let's leave it to rest. > > David >