Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 22 Mar 2014 00:28:04 Dale wrote:
>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> Judging by replies so far, I'd guess not many at all. You can't
>>> possibly know how many will or will not plonk someone. In the meantime
>>> Dale, I think you are projecting. Chill out brother, chill out. Plenty
>>> stuff in the world more deserving of attention than this.
>>
>> I fixed it now.  No more problems.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>
> Some of us read all, but reply only where we think we can add value and when
> time allows.
>
> There is no need really on this list for verbal abuse, especially when a
> contributor has offered well considered advice and carefully articulated
> opinion.
>
> Nevertheless, I also find personally addressed emails annoying, but it can be
> fixed by setting up a filter on most mail clients to drop them in the
> corresponding M/L.  This may be a more civil way than alienating people who
> want to join this community.  I'm just saying ...
>

If a person sends html messages to this list, there is quite a few that will block because they can't read them.  Same as with quite a few other things that is not liked on this list.  Folks don't like html and don't like getting two copies of the same message.  My point was and still is, if he doesn't want to conform to what this list expects, he will be blacklisted by people on this list.  Period.  It's nothing personal about it since I would inform anyone else of the same thing.  It's really that simple.

I still remember when I first joined this list.  I was told the same thing about my email program sending html.  If I had not conformed to the requests of people on  this mailing list, I would have been blacklisted by a large group of people and was told that I would by some of the very ones that would do it.  When joining a community, you conform to what is expected.  You don't join and then force everyone else to conform to what you want.  All Tom had to do is not CC everyone.  Real simple.  No harder than me telling my software to send text only message to gentoo.org.

It seemed to me that Tom refused the request of quite a few people even after several asked him to change.  Based on that, I blacklisted him.  That is something I rarely do but hey, it is what it is.  I fixed his problem for him.  I suspect others have done the same.

BTW, I have yet to see him add much of anything to any discussion.  I've seen his posts on -dev as well.   I won't now but still.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)

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