[Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla 1.2pre2 seems broken -- can't tla add!

[Neil Stevens]

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On Friday January 30, 2004 2:23 pm, Charles Duffy wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 16:03, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > User error in the command line, or in thinking a mailing list called
> > gnu-arch-users is actually for users, instead of being for people with
> > bad attitudes to mock the users?
>
> Eh?
>
> The message this replied two broke at least two rules of etiquitte (as
> expressed in ESR's "How to Ask Smart Questions" -- jumping to the
> conclusion of a bug and pressing personal urgency in requesting unpaid
> support, not to mention failing to RTFM before posting). Despite this,
> this *one* reply manages to be only mildly biting if that.

Biting?  It seems to me that Mr. Suffield's mail had no purpose but to 
antagonize its recipients.  It didn't do anything constructive at all.

If Mr. Suffield had "How to Ask Smart Questions" in mind when writing his 
useless mail, perhaps he should have saved the "user error" remark and 
instead just provided a url to that document.

That would have at least taught the user a lesson, and given the mail some 
value to its recipients.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - address@hidden

"It's snowing, it's snowing! God, I hate this weather."
    They Might Be Giants, __New York City__
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