From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hvgo3-000805-Br for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:43:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l55Leqk3027301; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:40:52 GMT Received: from ppsw-9.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-9.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.139]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l55LaZSs020614 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:36:35 GMT X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Received: from spb42.christs.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.233.172]:44243 helo=maya) by ppsw-9.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.159]:25) with esmtpsa (LOGIN:spb42) (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) id 1Hvghc-0001SW-VY (Exim 4.63) for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org (return-path ); Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:36:32 +0100 Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 22:52:58 +0100 From: Stephen Bennett To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble Message-ID: <20070605225258.710c63cd@maya> In-Reply-To: <4665D0D6.7050707@gmail.com> References: <1181074192.12669.16.camel@antares.hausnetz> <20070605213411.3c23c42b@maya> <1181075342.12669.20.camel@antares.hausnetz> <20070605220011.456bc6b4@maya> <4665D0D6.7050707@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.2 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "S.P. Bennett" X-Archives-Salt: e9f56db2-2aad-4494-a23c-472e101fbbfa X-Archives-Hash: e528c826b2c2154a5a90db9094831fb0 On Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:08:38 +0100 George Prowse wrote: > Was your behaviour wrong? Not particularly. Was it in bad taste? > Definitely. Could his email to the list stop others from making the > same mistakes? Hopefully. Bad taste depends entirely upon context and upon the people reading it. In the context that the original comment was made, everyone active at the time recognised it for what it was, so it wasn't bad taste. On this list, it is. The mistake was in taking a joke amongst a group of friends out of that context and into a much wider one full of people liable to get their panties in a twist. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list