Re: where is alt.religion.emacs?

[Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>]

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