[ros-kernel] New development model

Jason Filby jasonfilby at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 15 11:32:05 CET 2004


Mike Nordell wrote:
>Patience is a virtue, I've read. But enough is enough...
>Jason, may I suggest a few things things?

Sure.

>1. Fix your MUA. Having it double, or is it even tripling or
>quadrupling?, the amount of lines on every text you quote is
idiotic.
>The last post from you in this thread contained TWO THOUSAND AND
>SEVEN LINES!!!

Right, I didn't even realize that actually.

>2. For christ sake, stop overquoting! Out of those 2306 lines, two -
>I repeat; TWO! - of those lines were text from you, and the rest was
>just jibberish. Two lines of real comment out of 2306 lines isn't
>even AOL "Meoo!" quality - it is *way* below that.

I don't see what the big deal is, really, but I'll try and keep that
in mind.

>3. While on overquoting - stop quoting .sig's and list footers.
>Please.

Right.

>4. Please stop top-posting. Had you used established netiquette wrt
>quoting conventions you might at least have noticed that _something_
>was wrong when you yourself had been forced to scroll down all those
>2303 (or however many your MUA displays to you) lines.

What is really so bad about top-posting? Actually.. nevermind.

>You have been a notorious violator of simple nettiquette wrt
>top-posting and overquoting, and since you seems to have been
>disregarding previous requests for you to fix your MUA it seems it
>must be repeated.

I must have missed all these requests - I've only seen one just
didn't manage to fix the problem at the time.

>I have also with diminishing patience hoped you would see yourself
>how badly your ill-formed posts stood out compared to to the
majority
>of post, but in vain it seems. Indeed, please _do_ read this post as
>LARTing. I'd appreciate it, and even expect it.

Right.

Jason




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