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## i found something

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### i found something

by nadir » Thu Oct 16, 2014 12:56 am

Someone at a forum gave a link to posts made by a DD, regarding systemd (slowly getting tired of the subject ...):
http://lists.luv.asn.au/pipermail/luv-m ... 06870.html
I guess i agree with his conclusion. But that was not the reason of this post.
I searched the name of the DD on the web to find out if he is still a DD. I found this:

> On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 02:04:21AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > I just received violently abusive email from Craig Sanders, who said
> > that it's wankers like me who are ruining Debian, and used a variety
> > of expletives to make his point.
> and as is proper for such a message, i sent it privately so as not to
> bother people who don't give a **** about it.
> i call it like i see it. you're a wanker. you're also a whining
> contemptible loser.
> > I don't think this is tolerable behavior. Craig is free to hold
> > whatever beliefs he wants, and if they are hostile and rude, that's
> > fine with me, but when he emails me, they are no longer acceptible.
> aww, diddums. the big bad world is too harsh, make it go away.
> > We've all seen this email before; we've tolerated it so far. But I
> > don't think we should. Craig does not confine his abuse to private
> > email, but he posts it to public forms.
> pot. kettle. black.
> who was it who bounced private mail to a public forum?
> i repeat, you are a posturing wanker. your sole purpose in "debates"
> is not to achieve anything constructive, it is to preen and posture in
> public.
> > This in itself is bad enough and casts an extremely poor image on Debian.
> yes, it does, doesn't it. you really shouldn't be so willing to infringe
> copyright like that. it reflects poorly on debian.
> > I will not be accepting further email from Craig, and anything he does
> > send me I will simply forward on to whichever public forum seems to
> > match the content of his message most closely.
> like i said, if you don't want to receive any message from me then
> the onus is on you to NOT send me inflammatory crap which requires a
> response. while i'm more than happy to have no further correspondence
> with you, it's a bit much to expect that i'm going to honour your
> request when you follow it up with several subsequent messages.
> > Something should be done, in my opinion, to tell developers that
> > abusive email of this sort is simply never acceptible.
> yeah, sending private email to a public list is not acceptable. for one
> thing, it is a gross infringement of copyright. for another, the rest of
> the people in the list don't give a **** and don't want to see it.
> no regards,
> craig

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2 ... 00886.html
Sounds as if it would have happened in a different universe (iow: times have changed, and sure not for the better). Bad language doesn't impress me much. Plain and clear, straight to the point does (with or without bad language, i don't care).
... different universe ... and then came ubuntu ...
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I found the first link here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-76 ... 9f#7630852
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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### Re: i found something

by nadir » Thu Oct 16, 2014 1:03 am

Debian today?
IRC #debian-offtopic channel, rules:
all init rants go to /dev/null
In offtopic?
"you got the right to remain silent"
Ok, i will do so ....
So i herd u liek mudkip?

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