[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: new developer Joshua Nichols (nichoj)

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Henrik Brix Andersen posted <20051123103611.GB30069@dmz.brixandersen.dk>,
excerpted below,  on Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:36:11 +0100:

> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 03:14:25AM -0700, Duncan wrote:
>> OK, this is a gripe of mine, so...
> [snip unuseful rant]

Political point:  Calling someone's hard work "unuseful" without
qualification is likely to cause offense.  If it's so useless, after all,
would someone have spent the time to post it?  Therefore, it's useful to
/someone/, even if that /someone/ is only the poster.  "IMO unuseful" gets
the point across, without being quite so offensive.  (Who can fault
someone for having an opinion and expressing it?)

> Do you always have this much time on your hands? Perhaps if you try
> cutting down on the length of your emails someone might actually read them
> - instead you could then spend the time on trying to understand an
> internal developer joke?

Got the joke, but the point was, it wasn't directly apparent from the URL
(with no description) what the joke was, and like many jokes, it isn't so
funny once it has to be explained.

Cutting down on the mail length, right, so I'll stop here.

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