actually, enforcing community norms in public is useful
Belittlment and patronisation is a community norm?
________________________________ From: Steve Huff shuff@vecna.org To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, 12 August, 2009 13:39:20 Subject: Re: [CentOS] [Off-list] Slow IDE on GeForce 8200 board
On Aug 12, 2009, at 6:23 AM, Ian Murray murrayie@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
If anybody feels they must send complaints, execute personal vendettas, issue death threats, etc please do it off-list.
actually, enforcing community norms in public is useful and important. an off-list message educates only the recipient, while a public message educates not only the recipient but also other new readers.
-steve