Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

[Alejandro Imass]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 05:15:37PM -0500, Tom Worster wrote:
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>> On 11/12/10 2:29 PM, "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote:
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> You expect a newbie to know it all.
> That is inconsiderate and lazy.
> You started somewhere, so does everyone else.
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True. But when you join an existing community you _should_ be just a
bit more prudent don't you think?
Furthermore, I think we all have screwed up more than once and have
had our good share of rudeness, and have dealt with it.
The bad thing IMO is to continue to attack like the OP did after
realizing his comment was not very welcome.

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>> >The intelligent thing is to give a reasonable answer and point the person
>> >to some web pages where they can become informed and then ignore it.
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>> I would describe that as the indulgent thing, not the intelligent thing.
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> You would have starved before now if other people had your attitude.
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I can't make out what you are trying to say here, but Tom's attitude
is in fact the correct one. Is the well-accepted way of doing things
in the hacker world, and very true, it's not for everyone.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Alex

> ////jerry
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