public inbox for [email protected]  
help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: 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)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

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.
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
BSDCan - http://www.bsdcan.org/




view thread (35+ messages)  latest in thread

reply

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: [email protected]
  Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
  Subject: Re: PHP/Postgresql Advocacy
  In-Reply-To: <402E0865.725.2EC95ADF@localhost>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox