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From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: ghe@sdf.org
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 19:03:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-ed78b1f9-47fd-4621-bc91-e01589cdcede-1604685838871@3c-app-mailcom-bs11> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2011061817370453.29827@sdf.lonestar.org>





> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2020 at 6:36 PM
> From: "Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Defun Self Documentation
>
>
> >> It's rude indeed, but see his "apology" mail on Sat, 29 Aug 2020
> >> 14:52:36 +0200.  He has a personality disorder, which makes him behave
> >> weirdly from time to time.  IMO it's better to ignore this when it
> >> happens.
> >
> > Sorry, I'm not prepared to ignore people who publicly smear the names of
> > others with profanities.  Those people should be prepared to have their
> > names publicly smeared as well.
> >
>
> That's correct only if you assume that everyone behaves in a rational way.
> There are people with psychological disabilities, who sometimes do not
> behave rationally.  One particularly impressive disability is for example
> Tourette's syndrome.[1] The best thing you can do is to not take what they
> do and say seriously/literally, IOW, to take what they do and say with
> many grains of salt.  Of course all this is more difficult to perceive
> with people who behave irrationally only at times, and is also more
> difficult to perceive on a mailing list.

That depends on how administrators run the project.  Not all are so understanding.
Have you never worked in a serious job before! Administrators are entitled to
reject anybody who cannot function well in a society.  Still, I would not argue
that Emanuel Berg can offend anybody when writing on his own web pages.

>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourette_syndrome
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-06 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-05 15:16 Defun Self Documentation Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 15:45 ` tomas
2020-11-05 15:55   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:00     ` tomas
2020-11-05 16:10       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 18:08       ` Jean Louis
2020-11-05 19:34         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:15     ` Drew Adams
2020-11-05 16:27       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:41     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-05 16:51       ` Arthur Miller
2020-11-05 16:59         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 17:28         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-05 17:29     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-05 17:50       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 19:35         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-05 19:22     ` Joost Kremers
2020-11-05 19:38       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-05 19:50         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-05 21:02           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06  5:27             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06  7:07               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06  7:18                 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06  7:45                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06  8:17                     ` tomas
2020-11-06  8:38                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06  8:45                         ` tomas
2020-11-09  3:22                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06  8:44                     ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 11:54                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 12:12                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-06 17:36                         ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 18:03                           ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2020-11-09  3:49                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 18:39                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-09  4:00                             ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09  3:48                           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09  3:45                         ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09  3:29                       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 11:10                   ` Defun Self Documentation (let us do it different) Jean Louis
2020-11-09  4:01                     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-06 17:02               ` Defun Self Documentation Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 18:35                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 18:50                   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 19:07                     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-06 19:23                       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-06 19:41                         ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-05 16:07 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-05 18:41   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-11-06  9:10 Anders Munch
2020-11-06 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 15:33 Anders Munch
2020-11-06 15:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-06 16:07   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-09  4:08   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09  4:26     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09  4:39       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-09 13:32         ` Eric S Fraga
2020-11-11 15:34           ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-09 15:51         ` Eli Zaretskii

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