From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2004-06-16T07:19:53+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] celsoft.com/Battery 0.1.1

On Tuesday 15 June 2004 15:11, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Sean O'Dell wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 June 2004 14:22, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> >>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.
> >>
> >>Seconded. It's off topic and immature.
> >>
> >>Let's put our energy into ruby, please. The "addlib" idea is a promising
> >>topic for discussion. And the .sig files are amusing, even if they are
> >>OT...
> >
> > Why didn't you say this about the people participating in the
> > self.promote.com/energizer thread, or Bill Kelly, who posted the link
> > http://www.moviewavs.com/Movies/Waynes_World/sphinctr.wav to me here in
> > the same ML?
> >
> > Oh, I see...they don't like me, so they're not a problem.  They post all
> > that and they're not "immature" but I point out Ziegler's sloppy project
> > releases and I'm the immature one.
> >
> > You people have your heads screwed on funny.
>
> Lots of people say lots of inappropriate things about each other all the
> time, sometimes, unfortunately, on ruby-talk. The Wayne's World
> reference was in that category. I deleted it immediately, since it
> obviously was a purely personal jibe that had no relevance to ruby. It
> was _obviously_ immature.

It didn't "delete" here in ML, so it's here forever archived, as far as I 
know.

> The post of yours that I responded to purported to be a critique of a
> ruby project, and a casual reader of the list might have taken it as
> such. However, in context it was no better than the scatological
> reference, and just as immature. If you want to sling s**t, then sling
> s**t, and we can all ignore it. Just don't try to pass it off as
> technical commentary.

I don't believe my post was any worse than anything flung at me so far.  Don't 
try and make it out as if I'm the one who started this and who dishes out the 
worst.  I only posted an initial announcement, and the rest of it were all 
just responses to others.

	Sean O'Dell