From: Jorge Araya Navarro <elcorreo@deshackra.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: where is alt.religion.emacs?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:35:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4r9isg7.fsf@deshackra.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lhncyzxd.fsf@debian.uxu>
Well, I often get surprised when the communication tone of some tech people isn't ice-cold! I can think on a
couple of developers that use a friendly tone, right now.
Emanuel Berg writes:
> 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.
--
Pax et bonum.
Jorge Araya Navarro.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-17 18:35 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
2014-11-17 18:35 ` Jorge Araya Navarro [this message]
[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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