From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: where is alt.religion.emacs?
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 21:25:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhncyzxd.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.13169.1415385292.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
writes:
>> alt.religion.emacs is about the Church of Emacs,
>> right?
>
> From the posts I read so far I think this mailing
> list was often transcending even this encompassing
> subject. ;-)
Ha ha ha :)
But some technology people are religious in style. And
I say that in the negative, fundamentalistic sense. It
has come to the point when the technology isn't the
main thing anymore, but rather the set of rules - the
"right way" to do things... just as modern-day
fundamentalists chant their slogans (who cares about
God anymore when there are a zillion rules to obey at
all times, and infidels to kill).
Here, when we argue back-and-forth on lists and
newsgroups such as this there is often a tone which is
ice-cold and (seemingly) without any human touch.
While insults and obscene language should never be
made a virtue, perhaps newcomers should be made aware
somehow that the albeit insult-free but still ice-cold
tone, it is just the tone that a bunch of tech-people
use to communicate. Don't worry about it.
I say this because when I use the same tone here at
other places, there is always a big holaballo and that
has surprised me numerous times. People are just not
used to it.
--
underground experts united
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-15 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-07 9:27 where is alt.religion.emacs? H. Dieter Wilhelm
2014-11-07 17:40 ` Jorge Araya Navarro
2014-11-07 18:34 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
[not found] ` <mailman.13169.1415385292.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-15 20:25 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2014-11-17 18:35 ` Jorge Araya Navarro
[not found] ` <mailman.13911.1416249479.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-18 2:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-18 6:44 ` Jorge Araya Navarro
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