[Discuss] excuse me?

[Alan Clemens]

THANKS FOR BEING SO KIND AND HELPFUL ...boy...you guys sure do know  
how to make someone feel welcome don't  you?


On 14-Aug-07, at 11:06 AM, Brij Charan wrote:

> Noel, while I admire your initiative to calm things down, I think  
> you need
> to view the whole scope of this discussion, perhaps you should do a  
> search
> in your mailbox for all of alans questions, get the bigger picture,  
> and a
> more 'informed' decision before you start barking against david.
>
>
> On 8/14/07, noel at natnix.com <noel at natnix.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ummm... David, I'm looking for a polite way of telling you you're  
>> being
>> an asshole.  Alan's question is totally valid, seeing as nvu (open
>> source) is the answer he was looking for.  Even if someone asks an
>> off-topic question, be helpful, not a jerk.  Your attitude give Linux
>> nerds a bad name.
>>
>> Alan, let me apologize for David's rude reply.  I personally welcome
>> your questions.  Hopefully the trolls will keep their grumbling to
>> themselves.  I usually ignore them, but I thought you should know  
>> we're
>> not all jerks.
>>
>> ~Noel
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 10:54:38AM -0700, David Bronaugh wrote:
>>> Alan Clemens wrote:
>>>> To David Bronaugh,
>>>>
>>>> Well excuuuuuuuse me!  When I signed up to VMUG "Victoria Macintosh
>>>> Users Group", they informed me that this was a open forum for Mac
>>>> users, and I've never had any problems before...that is until  
>>>> you came
>>>> along.
>>> Then let me correct your mistaken impression. This is the Victoria
>>> *Linux* Users Group. We talk about Linux and open source  
>>> software. If
>>> you don't know what those are, I'm sure Wikipedia can inform you.  
>>> We do
>>> not discuss proprietary software; this includes MacOS and  
>>> proprietary
>>> applications in general.
>>>
>>> Perhaps you should have read that when you signed up for the list.
>>>
>>> David
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