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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Dan Langille <[email protected]>
To: Joshua Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexey Borzov <[email protected]>
Cc: David Costa <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PHP/Postgresql Advocacy
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 11:37:09 -0500
Message-ID: <402E0865.725.2EC95ADF@localhost> (raw)
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On 14 Feb 2004 at 7:40, Joshua Drake wrote:
> > Alex: What you say is not as important as how you say it. Using the
> > insults above will encourage support.
That should be "will not encourage".
> I don't see them as insults as much as statements of fact. Basically
> he is just saying what he experienced trying to help with the WWW
> project.
>
> Insults are typically a little different in wording:
>
> There is a "purposely" well hidden (because nobody really wants the
> help) pgsql-www list. If you are a jerk enough, the people over at
> pgsql-www think you are one of them and will subscribe you.
>
> That is an insult. His wording IMHO were just statements ;)
Insults do not have to be explicit to be insults. But let us
concentrate on the first part of my statement, not the second.
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Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
BSDCan - http://www.bsdcan.org/
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