From: Aleksi <foobar@...>
Date: 2005-04-22T18:49:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [EVALUATION] - E03e - The Ruby Object Model (Summary)

I believe in co-existence. I don't think people should be silenced to 
death unless they're really just creating disorder. Lazaridis might be 
borderline case but it's hard to deny there's no point in his real 
question about classes, superclasses, metaclasses, Class etc. It's very 
easy to say he's not behaving nice in accusations, netiquette and so on.

I dislike Ilias' but I dislike equally as much people who act improperly 
or are rude for Mr. Lazaridis. Neither party are getting things better.

My advice is this.

1) Think three times (before you write, after you've written your reply 
and once more before you send it after half an hour break) before you 
write anything to these threads.

2) Determine if you're contributing to the mailing list signal/noise 
-ratio in positive way. If not, don't send. If you need to make yourself 
feel better by being rude verbally write the piece, send it to /dev/null 
and feel better. Don't waste bandwidth.

First point should lessen the traffic to a small portion. Second point 
should lead to either silence or to normal appreciating discussion, all 
minds fresh and happy.

If majority finds there's nothing to discuss with Lazaridis he will end 
up in silence and, from experience in other news groups, go away. If 
even few people want to discuss with him, there's no right for the 
others disrupt or they're behaving just like they claim Lazaridis' 
doing. So they should go away.

I'll write one more in this thread. That's directly to Ilias written in 
his style but since he has claimed he's not reading his personal mail 
I'll put it to the list. In it I try to say to him what's wrong in his 
writings. To make it worthwhile for the rest the mail could be amusing 
as ewll. Can't say if I succeeded but at least I tried.

This is major turning point. Shall major ruby mailing list continue to 
be friendly to each other (and everybody) or shall we start to convert 
towards common cyberspace style.

	- Aleksi