[Discuss] Firefox with RedHat Fedora

[stephen hawkes]

I kind of think it's funny that people have gotten so wound up over 
David's one comment and have overlooked months and years of the same 
from so many others.

The VLUG mailing list has a lot of RTFM type messages, snobbishness and 
general rudeness. This does seem  quite stereo typical of computer 
people in general (a lot of one  upping etc), however that doesn't make 
it acceptable.

I have spoken with friends that are linux users and asked them why they 
don't subscribe and it distills down to: they find no value in this 
list. There were various reasons, but they all seemed to distill down to 
that.


Ken Murray wrote:
> On 1/18/07, David Bronaugh <dbronaugh at linuxboxen.org> wrote:
>
>> There's a difference between being ignorant and being
>> bullheaded/stubborn/stupid.
>
> Really?  You're doing a great job of demonstrating how somebody can be
> bullheaded/stubborn/stupid about achieving the actual goal of VLUG.  I
> suggest you slow down and go read the charter of this society.
>
>> Actually, no, I haven't forgotten. The difference here is that I was a
>> newbie once; Murray (and perhaps you?) seem like they will ALWAYS be a
>> newbie. I guess this may give you an advantage in understanding his
>> point of view?
>
> Yet more insults.  Do you need to insult others in order to make
> yourself feel more adequate in life?  Are you perhaps making up for
> other "shortcomings"?
>
> Do remember that members like Murray have been around far longer that
> you have and will likely be around long after you've had yourself
> shunned out of the group.  I suggest that you eat some crow and
> apologize publicly for being such a complete jackass.
>
>