On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 08:28:08PM +0100, TheVeech wrote: > But where is it written that people who disagree have to go at it hammer > and tongues or descend into personal animosity? No doubt most of us > have been there, but at least some of us learn from it. 'Growing up' is > what I think it's called? >
:) I can't claim to be an innocent party here. I have taken part in flame wars on numerous lists. I'm not proud of that, and I try to temper my reactions and delay my negative replies (or run them past someone else first) to reduce me doing that. > Too many fragile egos in too many areas, methinks. Like you suggest, a > good admin/chair should be able to steer disputes towards some sort of > civilised and productive debate. Maturity should do the rest. > Where exactly are you from and how long are you staying with us here on planet Earth? :) We even drew up some guidelines:- http://hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MailingList/Tips Which I think are actually pretty damn good. Nobody reads them though, and those that do, many ignore it. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
