From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 9 23:32:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEDA81583C for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 23:32:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA14956; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 02:31:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 02:31:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Contributors, or lack thereof In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19990909213006.046fd350@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > At 09:56 AM 9/9/99 -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > >And you wonder why people resort to name calling. > > Yes, I do. Some of the observations I'm making may not be all > sweetness and light, but then, if they were, they wouldn't be useful > contributions. Things improve when you observe what's wrong and do > something about it. People resort to calling you names because in the end its far less stressful to throw insults at you than to try and hold a reasonable conversation with you. I think you'd find that more people would be interested in what you have to say if you tried correcting the flaws in your communication skills, especially those relating to conversation (you know, where more than 1 person is talking). A review of the rules governing the varieties of formal debate might be useful as well. Nothing personal. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message