[Discuss] excuse me?

[Brij Charan]

Noel, while I admire your initiative to calm things down, I think you need
to view the whole scope of this discussion, perhaps you should do a search
in your mailbox for all of alans questions, get the bigger picture, and a
more 'informed' decision before you start barking against david.


On 8/14/07, noel at natnix.com <noel at natnix.com> wrote:
>
> Ummm... David, I'm looking for a polite way of telling you you're being
> an asshole.  Alan's question is totally valid, seeing as nvu (open
> source) is the answer he was looking for.  Even if someone asks an
> off-topic question, be helpful, not a jerk.  Your attitude give Linux
> nerds a bad name.
>
> Alan, let me apologize for David's rude reply.  I personally welcome
> your questions.  Hopefully the trolls will keep their grumbling to
> themselves.  I usually ignore them, but I thought you should know we're
> not all jerks.
>
> ~Noel
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 10:54:38AM -0700, David Bronaugh wrote:
> > Alan Clemens wrote:
> > >To David Bronaugh,
> > >
> > >Well excuuuuuuuse me!  When I signed up to VMUG "Victoria Macintosh
> > >Users Group", they informed me that this was a open forum for Mac
> > >users, and I've never had any problems before...that is until you came
> > >along.
> > Then let me correct your mistaken impression. This is the Victoria
> > *Linux* Users Group. We talk about Linux and open source software. If
> > you don't know what those are, I'm sure Wikipedia can inform you. We do
> > not discuss proprietary software; this includes MacOS and proprietary
> > applications in general.
> >
> > Perhaps you should have read that when you signed up for the list.
> >
> > David
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Brij Charan
Software Developer, Specializing in UI Development.