From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:02:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uulc6j0.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20140112194223.GA16840@thyrsus.com
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com> writes:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>:
>> Please read the previous two paragraphs together. You ridicule Eli for
>> not managing to fix your breakage in the first try, and then state that
>> you yourself have no idea what caused it.
>
> !!! I wasn't ridiculing Eli, I was implicitly poking fun at myself.
You take yourself more important than others if you consider
_implicitly_ poking fun at yourself an adequate justification for
_explicitly_ poking fun at somebody else. In particular if you keep the
former to yourself.
> As for the rest of your response, I'll pass over it in polite silence.
> But your chances of successfully influencing my future behavior just
> decreased.
I did not consider them high to start with, but would have considered it
inappropriate to leave Eli to deal on his own with what amounts to
friendly, self-deprecating bullying. The choice of communication
standards involves two parties.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-12 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-12 14:37 VCSWITNESS = fail ** 2 Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 15:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-12 15:17 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 16:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 16:45 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 17:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 18:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 18:45 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-12 19:10 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-12 21:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-13 2:31 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-12 19:25 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 19:42 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 20:02 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-01-12 21:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-13 15:41 ` Richard Stallman
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