Re: I donīt like that

David Mosberger-Tang (David.Mosberger@acm.org)
Sun, 5 Apr 1998 14:06:42 -0700

>>>>> On Sun, 05 Apr 1998 21:41:06 +0200, Christian Bucher <cbucher@vernetzt.at> said:

Christian> Probably Iīll make me very unpopular with what Iīve to
Christian> say now. But I really donīt like the way some questions
Christian> on this mailing list are answered. If there is somebody
Christian> frustrated cause there is no other sense in his life or
Christian> he head a bad last night with his wife, leaf it at
Christian> home. I think most requests are really a problem for the
Christian> people who make it. And I can sea no reasen to respond
Christian> unfriendly.

I'd hope everyone would agree with you!

Yes, some of the questions to this list (and any mailing list indeed)
are phrased impolitely or outright rude, but let's keep in mind that
for a lot of people English is a second or third language so they may
not be aware of their questions sounding rude. And, quite frankly, I
prefer a poorly phrased question in English than one in Lituanian or
Zulu... ;-)

I certainly don't want to encourage censorship, but I found that, for
me, it works much better to simply ignore questions that I find
impolite, rude, or otherwise offensive.

--david

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