From: "Michael T. Richter" Date: 2008-05-08T19:11:46+09:00 Subject: Re: Posting Culture --=-zzIc2kNmxT/qjiomN+3f Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-cuRV7mccNRPXRxdfZ3qS" --=-cuRV7mccNRPXRxdfZ3qS Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 17:01 +0900, Robert Dober wrote: > Put shortly, no, I do not really feel this tendency, maybe just an > increase in traffic? Actually the only real tendency I've seen in posting culture in the Ruby-Talk mailing list since I first signed on was a reduction of "Matz Is Nice So We Are Nice" (MINSWAN) culture and an increase in ESR "you must ask exactly the way I want to be asked or I will feel free to mock you"-style culture. I do not find this an improvement. IM(NS)HO/YMMV/IANAL/WIIYWH. --=20 Michael T. Richter (GoogleTalk: ttmrichter@gmail.com) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. (Ernest Benn) --=-cuRV7mccNRPXRxdfZ3qS Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 17:01 +0900, Robert Dober wrote:

Put shortly, no, I do not really feel this tendency=
, maybe just an
increase in traffic?

Actually the only real tendency I've seen in posting culture in the Ruby-Ta= lk mailing list since I first signed on was a reduction of "Matz Is Ni= ce So We Are Nice" (MINSWAN) culture and an increase in ESR "you = must ask exactly the way I want to be asked or I will feel free to mock you= "-style culture.

I do not find this an improvement. IM(NS)HO/YMMV/IANAL/WIIYWH.

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Michael T. Richter <ttmri= chter@gmail.com> (GoogleTalk: ttmrichter@gmail.com)
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists= or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. (Ernest = Benn)

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