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From: Han Boetes <han@mijncomputer.nl>
Subject: Re: backup method
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 05:14:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050128041445.GJ6167@boetes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01c504a8$Blat.v2.4$51b28d00@zahav.net.il>

You pointed out to me that my initial idea was not the right one
by formulating it as a rhetorical question. Which is a terribly
unforgiving way to point out someone made a mistake.

You didn't even bother to notice my further corrected findings.

I _admitted_ I was wrong and _suggested_ you should not use
rhetorical questions to point out peoples mistakes.

And now you answer with this! Some cheek!


Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Han Boetes <han@mijncomputer.nl>
> >
> > > So you had a very specific problem, and you are suggesting
> > > to change the defaults of _all_ users just because of that
> > > one problem?
> >
> > You are absolutely right, that's exactly what I suggested. I
> > also suggest you make a study on rhetorical questions and I
> > hope you find out why you should avoid them.
>
> It wasn't clear to me that you understood it was a rhetorical
> question.
>
> As long as we agree that your suggestion is based on a specific
> problem of a single user, I'm happy, since your arrogant
> attitude suggests that we have little hope of having a useful
> discussion.



# Han

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-28  4:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-27  0:02 backup method Han Boetes
2005-01-27  0:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27  1:20   ` Miles Bader
2005-01-27  1:37     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27  1:54     ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 22:18       ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-28  3:56         ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29  4:16           ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-29  6:08             ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29 18:42               ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 21:06                 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-29 21:48                   ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 22:37                     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 22:49                     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 21:57                   ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 22:05                   ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 22:52                 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29 23:50                   ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-30 21:52                     ` Han Boetes
2005-01-31  0:20                     ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-31  0:57                       ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-01 13:30                         ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-01 14:09                           ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-03  6:40                             ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-03  9:27                               ` David Kastrup
2005-02-03 10:15                                 ` Han Boetes
2005-02-05  5:28                                 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-05 10:26                                   ` David Kastrup
2005-02-06 10:29                                     ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-31  0:20                 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-31  4:07                   ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29 20:06               ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-30 10:57               ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-30 11:39                 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 18:25   ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-01-27 20:25     ` Reiner Steib
2005-01-27 23:19       ` Miles Bader
2005-01-27 23:12     ` Miles Bader
2005-01-28  3:55     ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-27  1:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27  2:08   ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27  2:27     ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27  4:59       ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27  2:37     ` Miles Bader
2005-01-27  3:27       ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27  5:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-27  5:27   ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 19:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-28  4:14       ` Han Boetes [this message]
2005-01-27  8:30   ` Kim F. Storm
2005-01-27 19:55     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 21:12       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 20:15     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 22:19     ` Richard Stallman

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