From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <7e35c7b619f4bb7936677f2b26f0b69a@collyer.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] insularity From: Geoff Collyer In-Reply-To: <1079546956.14420.730.camel@zevon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:48:00 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 354ffaa0-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 davel touches many of the relevant points. I have no objection to David asking questions, per se (though some of them did suggest a real lack of effort, but that's not fatal). I have no problem with David's use of English, or anybody else's. I'm glad to see others taking an interest in Plan 9. What I did, and do, object to is a persistently snarky attitude among someone asking for help, particularly in response to answers intended to be helpful and responsive to his questions, as the people answering them understood them. His apparent perception that we're all trying to insult him (`I knew that.', `I knew that.') probably doesn't help his attitude, but I don't believe that these apparently-perceived insults were intended as insults. If he can't find a way to get along with people here without irritating large numbers of us frequently, it's going to be an unpleasant experience for him and many of us.