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[Gareth McCaughan]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Courageous wrote:
> > While I'm not accusing anyone of being an asshole here, could we maybe try
> > extra special hard to keep c.l.p a friendly place to be?
> 
> c.l.py is also know for the high technical quality on the replies.
> 
> anyone should be able to trust what he reads on this newsgroup
> (unless something is obviously a joke, of course), and also be able
> to post correct advice without being misquoted and ridiculed.
> 
> if thinking that makes me an asshole, so be it.

The person in c.l.l to whom I'm pretty sure "Courageous" is
referring has a similar motivation. (He is also, irksomely,
frighteningly clever and utterly worth listening to every word of
*on technical topics*.) That doesn't stop the arguments in which
he gets embroiled being very harmful to the group. I think
there is a valuable lesson to be learned there.

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Gareth McCaughan  Gareth.McCaughan at pobox.com
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