Joe Zeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:35:54 -0800:
> I had the impression > that somebody had apologized, but haven't kept the messages so I can't > check. You /may/ be referring to my "your name, your rights" posts, tho I still don't see the big deal, but I wasn't the one who made the mistake (tho that had as much to do with luck and the fact that I seldom mention direct parent posters by name, as anything else). But... consider this. Honestly if a bit rudely, there's the saying "Beggars can't be choosers." IOW, those who generally post questions really need to be a bit more cautious than those who generally post answers, lest they cause all that may have the answer to plonk or simply ignore them. As a normal answer poster and as most such folks in that position, there's far more questions here and elsewhere than I have time to answer. We regular answerers have quite a bit of luxury in what we choose to answer and can afford to make demands that those who post questions really can't. Your potential problem, then, is that you just caused someone with the right answer to plonk you. Much less of a worry for him than for you, should you have other questions that he would have otherwise been the first or only correct answer to. No, I don't expect to change your policy of a lifetime, and if you really consider being so particular about your name more important than getting a good answer to a question, as I said, your name, your right to be particular about it, but it's certainly worth considering. There are certain things (the four software freedoms) I consider worth defending. How others might mishandle my name isn't one of them, particularly when it comes in an answer to a question I asked. But others consider other things important, and you obviously consider your name important. It is indeed your right to do so, whatever the cost to you. ... As for the OT, well, yes, it is. However, pan development isn't giving us a lot new to talk about at the moment (not that I can complain those that write the code, make the rules, particularly in the world of free/libre and open source software, but Charles DOES have a definite pattern of on again off again pan development, and right now, it's off again), so it's natural for us regulars to relish a break from the long slog of rehash, once in awhile. Not that we don't welcome newbies and their questions, but well, something different once in awhile can be a nice change of pace, even if it's not strictly on topic, so... ... So that's probably why this OT subthread grew such a life of its own in the first place. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
