On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 01:29:44PM -0700, Paul Sisson wrote: > On Monday 01 October 2001 12:46, Joe Rhett wrote: > > I've filed a few bugs with the OpenSRS-SF project. Paul Sisson just > > deletes them without fixing them, querying about them or resolving > > the problem. > > I will respond off-list to this message. After I responded to the bug > report with a simple answer, this person attacked me as a "babbling > idiot", among other things, and the (invalid) bug was thus deleted. You responded to the bug report with a statement about a module that I didn't report a problem with, and did _not_ respond to the actual issue raised.
> As one can see from the original subject line (and the abusive tone of > the message body), meaningful communication with this person is > somewhat difficult. When I tried to follow up to make sure the bug was fixed, you ignored the update and deleted the bug again. You never attempted meaningful communication in the first place. Communication requires a two-way information flow, of which there was none. You didn't even ACK the report. Second, you clearly misunderstand the word 'abuse'. I have never abused you. I was acerbic and concise in one reply to you -- where I pointed out that you replied to a non-issue, and didn't reply to the issues raised. You focused on the word 'babbling' and ignored everything else I said -- exactly like you did with the original bug report. If you ignore the report contents and talk about some other random topic, someone might refer to you as 'babbling'. It's not abusive, it is pointing out that your replies aren't linear and relevant to the issue. I appreciate that you took this offline, but this public attack serves no good. You're attempting to justify the fact that you didn't feel it necessary to follow through with someone about the bug they reported. -- Joe Rhett Chief Geek [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISite Services, Inc.
