[Klug-general] Mailing list etiquette, again

[Karl Buckland]

Shish wrote:
> having... a go? what? You seem to be reading offensiveness when there
> really isn't any at all o_O  If I was meaning to offend, I would have
> called him an idiot or something; as it was, I just felt that his
> message was very hard to understand, so I gave some pointers as to what
> the mistakes were, and how the message could be improved...
> 
> If nobody pointed it out, what would stop it happening again?

I'm not speaking for George, but there's a gentle way of pointing things 
out and then there's being patronising, which is certainly considered as 
being rude by many people (myself included). I'm not going to go into 
more details because that too, would be patronising.

Karl

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