Hi Ian.
ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
> It seems that Historical Revisionism, of the bad kind, is now in
> operation at Debian, in that critical commentary about unapplied patches
> is made to disappear down the memory hole, without leaving so much as a
> trace on the relevant bug report.
>
> If
> I do remember this mail, and I remember thinking "uh, spamassassin
> missed killing that spam" without reading it all. Only the very end of
> the mail doesn't look like spam, there's very little probability that a
> maintainer would have gone that far.
*I* did hit my "Esc-L" mutt macro on that
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 08:05:16AM -0700, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
> hard disk manufacturers, and their Debian apologists
And with that, I welcome you to my permanent blacklist.
It's one thing to engage people in constructive dialogue. It's another to
denigrate them or troll them.
Plonk. (a
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> Which is to say, that Humpty-Dumpty's remarks are EXACTLY on point,
> especially the part about "neither more nor less."
The Debian bug tracking system is not a place for novels, novelettes or
short stories. Going on for lots of paragraphs and having your short
story be much longer than th
On 04/04/2013 12:05 PM, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
> Do you think there is any way that the relevance of posts to a bug
> report can be determined, without reference to the context in which they
> appear, *all the preceeding discussion*?
So far as I can see, nobody doubts your intentions. But y
ian_br...@fastmail.net, le Thu 04 Apr 2013 08:05:16 -0700, a écrit :
> > I do remember this mail, and I remember thinking "uh, spamassassin
> > missed killing that spam" without reading it all. Only the very end of
> > the mail doesn't look like spam, there's very little probability that
> > a main
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 08:05:16AM -0700, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
> >> I disagree: that mail starts with a chat between "Humpty Dumpty" and
> >> "Alice", which both have nothing to do with the bug at hand. There
> >> was nothing in the subject or the first paragraphs of the text that
> >> ind
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 15:51:38 +0200
Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> I disagree: that mail starts with a chat between "Humpty Dumpty" and
>> "Alice", which both have nothing to do with the bug at hand. There
>> was nothing in the subject or the first paragraphs of the text that
>> indicated how that story
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud, le Thu 04 Apr 2013 15:45:17 +0200, a écrit :
> (No need to CC me, I'm subscribed).
>
> Le jeudi, 4 avril 2013 15.17:09, ian_br...@fastmail.net a écrit :
> > When read in the context of that particular bug report, I don't see how
> > it could possibly be any more relevant, sin
(No need to CC me, I'm subscribed).
Le jeudi, 4 avril 2013 15.17:09, ian_br...@fastmail.net a écrit :
> When read in the context of that particular bug report, I don't see how
> it could possibly be any more relevant, since it refers directly to the
> discussion above.
I disagree: that mail start
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 13:09:30 +0200
"Didier 'OdyX' Raboud" wrote:
>> If it were thought that the criticism was unfair, or inaccurate, then
>> it could be allowed to remain in place, so that other people might
>> judge its lack of merit for themselves.
>>
>> In the case of bug #684128, post #108, h
On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 03:27 -0700, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
> It seems that Historical Revisionism, of the bad kind, is now in
> operation at Debian, in that critical commentary about unapplied patches
> is made to disappear down the memory hole, without leaving so much as a
> trace on the rel
Hi Ian,
(dropping the bug in CC, as it has nothing to do with it).
Le jeudi, 4 avril 2013 12.27:01, ian_br...@fastmail.net a écrit :
> It seems that Historical Revisionism, of the bad kind, is now in
> operation at Debian, in that critical commentary about unapplied patches
> is made to disappear
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