my recent 'end this thread' post

[Collins Richey]

On 1/11/06, Douglas J Hunley <doug at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> quoting someone:
> >I'm also wondering if Doug chose his words with any thought at all.
> >I'm trying really hard (honest I am:-) not to get royally po'd at his
> >calling some of us 'children' and his implication that if he doesn't
> >approve of it (whatever 'it' is), then it's not 'consturctive'.
>
> First, some clarification:
> 1) I didn't even read the thread. AT ALL.
> 2) I had 20, yes 20, emails direct to me asking me to end the thread
> 3) I lost count of how many emails I had asking me to move the thread to
> general
> 4) I very rarely come down on anyone on these lists
>
> Given the above, I thought it best to just end the thread. Period. There had
> been several requests to move the thread already, and there were several
> incidents of childish name calling.
>

The unique thing about this thread was that one of the early
responders, due to a misconfiguration of his mailer software for which
he apologized, inadvertently replied to the wrong list, and others
like myself who failed to note the change of lists kept the ball
rolling on the wrong list.

By the time your KILL ... NOW message came out, the thread had already
diverted back to general.

I certainly don't approve of the childish name calling, but I consider
threads of this nature to be a valuable interchange of ideas on
general.

Just my $.02.

--
Collins Richey
      Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write
      the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not
      smart enough to debug it.
             -Brian Kernighan