On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, pctech@mybellybutton.com wrote:
Wrong...His FIRST e-mail said, "Who are you and why should we care?" and THAT is when I responded the way I did.
And was that the best way to respond ?
You could have said who you were, and why your firewall document is important to the community. Or simply ignored him.
Maybe I did overreact. And the onus is on me for that. However, he shouldn't have fricken posted if he didn't care. I apologize to the group, as a whole for the overreaction. However, I won't respond for "sticking up for myself" when I was flamed. The forums for CentOS set the tone for WHY I overreacted.
Right or wrong, the vocal "minotiry" of any group sets the "public face" of that group. You can have 500 people, but if the 10 "loudest" people in the group act in a certain manner then the group as a whole gets the reputation of being that way.
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On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:17:23AM -0400, pctech@mybellybutton.com wrote:
Maybe I did overreact. And the onus is on me for that. However, he shouldn't have fricken posted if he didn't care. I apologize to the group,
I can't speak for Stephen, but I assume he "fricken" posted because he was interested and wanted to know more. So he asked for more info. And woah did he not get what he asked for.
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 10:17, pctech@mybellybutton.com wrote:
Right or wrong, the vocal "minotiry" of any group sets the "public face" of that group. You can have 500 people, but if the 10 "loudest" people in the group act in a certain manner then the group as a whole gets the reputation of being that way.
No, people only speak for themselves. You can imagine whatever you want, though.
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