"Sean O'Dell" <sean / celsoft.com> writes: > On Tuesday 15 June 2004 14:53, Hal Fulton wrote: >> Sean O'Dell wrote: >> > On Tuesday 15 June 2004 14:13, Ben Giddings wrote: >> >>Sean O'Dell wrote: >> >>>http://ruby-pdf.rubyforge.org/ >> >>>http://net-ldap.rubyforge.org/ >> >>> >> >>>Great work, Ziegler. >> >> >> >>Dude, take this kind of crap off the public mailing list. Please. >> > >> > Oh, it's fine when personalized insults about the quality of my projects >> > are posted here, but not when I return the same. I see. So am I the >> > only one not allowed to insult other's projects, or is there a rule that >> > says you can only initiate insults, so when Ziegler twice initiated >> > direct insults at me, I was somehow obligated to not return insults? >> > >> > I don't think it works that way, but thanks for the advice "dude." >> >> I think Ben meant you should BOTH (or ALL) take it offlist. >> >> If that's not what he's saying, it's what I'm saying. > > When people post messages to me in private, I will reply in private. It's a > pretty simple formula. They insist on posting here, though. I've never done > anything to start arguments here, they were always started here by others. > The only thing I EVER did was post my announcements, and other people started > picking fights over this and that from there. I merely responded. Even your > suggestion to me here to take this off-list could have been done off-list, > but you chose to post it here. See what I mean? > > Take it off-list if you want it off-list. I would never post here in response > to anything emailed to me in private. Email me if you want to say something > in private. > > Sean O'Dell "You started it, I'm just responding." "No, you started it, and so I'm replying in kind" "No YOU started it, dude!" "No, it was YOU!" "No, YOU!" "YOU!!!" "YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!" ... etc. etc. etc. etc. ... So who is going to be first to STOP it? In other words, ALL of you PLEASE take it off line. OK? -- Lloyd Zusman ljz / asfast.com God bless you.