From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2004-06-16T08:13:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] celsoft.com/Battery 0.1.1

On Tuesday 15 June 2004 16:04, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> "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?

Clearly not you.  You could have very easily sent this to me as a private 
email.

It seems a LOT of people like to ask that the discussion be taken off-list, 
but very, very few people have the character to actually TAKE their comments 
off-list.

	Sean O'Dell