For once I agree with Craig...
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Craig White <
craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 14:47 -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
> > Craig White wrote:
> > > It's not reasonable to expect us to ignore the whinging of an ignorant
> > > partisan without comment.
> > >
> >
> > C'mon Craig,
> >
> > Does it have to devolve into calling people ignorant or any form of name
> > calling? Can't it be okay to agree to disagree (especially about opinion
> > driven topics)? The "we are screwed" thread started without OT in the
> > Subject line and has continued without it as well... if people would
> > follow rules it probably would have been filtered w/o issue and not
> > commented back on.
> ----
> actually, yes
>
> Under normal circumstances, I would never call someone ignorant but
> someone who gets on the Linux list and posts a message that is purely
> political with absolutely no connection to the list purpose whatsoever
> is ignorant...there simply is no way to sugar coat it.
>
> Consider...
>
> Subject: We are screwed
> Content: It is not surprising but Obama won:(
>
> Considering that this is the PLUG list and it has no connection to
> Phoenix or Linux users it could only be ignorant to click send. I think
> I am being generous by calling him ignorant because there certainly are
> many more adjectives that easily come to mind.
>
> Craig
>
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