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 rep
> 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
>
s made to disappear down the memory hole, without leaving so much as a
> trace on the relevant bug report.
>
> 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.
Hi Ian,
On Thu, April 4, 2013 12:27, 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
>
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 it were thought that the criticism was unfair, or
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