From: Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] non-english keyboard?
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:10:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1078935002.20383.108.camel@zevon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403101122.i2ABMCHe021337@skeeve.com>
> This is fine and good, (a) in person, (b) in a work or school environment,
> where the relationship is clearly not peer-to-peer, and both sides
> agree and understand that.
>
> Those conditions don't apply to the mailing list/newsgroup, where the
> "RTFM, you idiot" attitude, without even a pointer as to which FM to R,
> is just likely to drive people away.
Being gratuitously insulting _never_ applies.
Yes, some people on this list (myself included)
can be terse to the point where it is considered rude,
but usually not deliberately.
> It's particularly inappropriate when, as is the case here, the original
> questioner has shown a willingness to do his own research when pointed
> in the right direction.
He _was_ pointed in the right direction ...
I don't even have a plan9 system but it took me all of 2 minutes
to google the archive for Nemo's stuff on keyboards?
Cheers,
Dave.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-10 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-09 16:55 David Tolpin
2004-03-09 17:02 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-09 17:07 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-09 17:12 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-03-09 17:40 ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-03-09 18:21 ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-09 18:37 ` [9fans] information <-> knowledge rog
2004-03-09 18:42 ` [9fans] non-english keyboard? David Tolpin
2004-03-09 18:45 ` Dave Lukes
2004-03-09 18:50 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-10 0:04 ` David Presotto
2004-03-09 19:02 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-03-10 7:36 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-03-09 19:17 ` 9nut
2004-03-09 20:02 ` [9fans] bidi rog
2004-03-09 20:00 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-09 20:18 ` rog
2004-03-09 20:29 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-03-09 20:39 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-10 20:54 ` Derek Fawcus
2004-03-10 21:07 ` rog
2004-03-10 21:43 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-03-10 22:17 ` 9nut
2004-03-10 1:53 ` Scott Schwartz
2004-03-10 21:09 ` rog
2004-03-09 20:24 ` Latchesar Ionkov
2004-03-10 15:47 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-03-10 17:20 ` David Tolpin
2004-03-11 1:04 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-03-09 23:51 ` [9fans] non-english keyboard? boyd, rounin
2004-03-10 9:47 ` Dave Cummings
2004-03-10 16:04 ` a
2004-03-10 19:45 ` Michael Baldwin
2004-03-09 23:49 ` boyd, rounin
2004-03-10 11:22 ` Aharon Robbins
2004-03-10 16:10 ` Dave Lukes [this message]
2004-03-09 23:45 ` boyd, rounin
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