[Gllug] Please Can We Stop! (was "while we're flaming anyway...")

[Lee Blackwell]

Un-fscking-subscribe....

:)

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, David Damerell wrote:

>
> On Monday, 10 Dec 2001, James.Rocks at equant.com wrote:
> >FYI the entire quote was:
> >><rant>
> >>For future reference, you may find it easier not to reinstall
> >>after such a minor hardware change.  Reinstallation (and rebooting
> >>for that matter) is almost never necessary with linux.  I (for one)
> >>find it frustrating when someone asks "How do I reconfigure linux
> >>to use a usb mouse?" when the documentation is plenty good enough
> >>for this, but that's nothing to the frustration encountered when
> >>I hear that someone has gone and reinstalled after such a change.
> ></rant>
> >Please note the use of "<rant>" & </rant>" and THEY are what I took
> >exception to!
>
> Oh, come on. None of that except the stuff I did quote could possibly
> be interpreted as directed at you.
>
> What it comes down to is that you saw some useful advice with a
> complaint that people are not generally aware of that advice - a
> complaint that wasn't directed at you, but would not have been unfair
> if it was, since you weren't aware of it - and got a massive wedgie
> over it.
>
> >secondly I maintain a copy of every single posting made on this list since
> >I joined partly because I don't understand some of it (yet)
>
> Including, presumably, the URL at the bottom of _every_ message
> providing a link to the full archives.
>
> >Now ... can we please leave this f**kin' subject alone?
>
> If you want to drop a subject, you'll have to resist the urge to have
> the last word. As soon as you drop it, so will I...
>
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> David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?
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