On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:25:55PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:25:06AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > have been guilty of it just the same as anyone else. Sometimes the > > non-US developers catch flames simply because they did not understand > > a post, or because they did not word their own post exactly as they > > wanted to. Native English speakers need to be aware of the language gap. > > Yes, that is a very important point. I sometimes delete a mail without > sending it because I am not sure if I worded it correctly and fear > the resulting flame war. irc is better because I can react more promptly > if somebody seems to misunderstand me :)
If I had saved all the messages I was going to send, and decided not to, I would have to get a new harddrive :) -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
