From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [OT] Netiquette (was: Re: asm-mode patch to allow per-file comment character setting from file locals) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:30:12 +0300 Message-ID: References: <2E2BAEFF-FEAD-4616-87CD-3B77D2734256@alastairs-place.net> <19321565-3F93-4299-996F-8A2081C462AF@alastairs-place.net> <85bqsyfrhb.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <853beaf0c4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <6C1D0482-9501-47E5-A79E-C40EF7B349A8@alastairs-place.net> <7BBA4171-6111-42FF-9293-0EF2D8E2E436@alastairs-place.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150255839 9182 80.91.229.2 (14 Jun 2006 03:30:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 03:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 14 05:30:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqM5O-0000Hs-Mm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:30:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqM5O-0001aD-6z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:30:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqM5C-0001Zx-5O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:30:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FqM5A-0001ZM-Ar for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:30:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FqM5A-0001ZJ-3q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:30:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FqMEF-00053L-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:39:39 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-43-116.inter.net.il [80.230.43.116]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DSB88853 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:30:13 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: Alastair Houghton In-reply-to: <7BBA4171-6111-42FF-9293-0EF2D8E2E436@alastairs-place.net> (message from Alastair Houghton on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:27:27 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55878 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Alastair Houghton > Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 20:27:27 +0100 > > > All the rest of us, including, but not limited to, those with gnu.org > > addresses, are also volunteers, answering questions and helping > > maintain Emacs on their own free time. So the politeness and good > > manners are equally reasonably expected on both sides. > > If you can find an instance where I haven't been polite, then I will > happily apologise for it. Your reaction to David's response strikes me as impolite, because it interpreted a perfectly technical response as having a non-technical agenda, and pounced on him. > >> If it was not a gnu.org address, that's different because you don't > >> have any control over them and they don't represent the FSF. > > > > People with gnu.org address don't represent the FSF in any way, they > > just happen to have accounts on gnu.org machines because they do work > > for the GNU project. > > People with gnu.org addresses represent the FSF every time they use > that address, in the same sense that people wearing a uniform > represent the organisation to which the uniform belongs. You are wrong, and your analogy is wrong. > Anyway, to be clear, I'm really not interested in debating this Well, you started it to begin with.