-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 02 June 2003 9:01 am, James Mohr wrote:
On Monday 02 June 2003 12:15, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: [...]
These are admin tasks, not Joe Luser's
Sorry, but if I were a newbie, or a simple user of Linux I would be insulted by that comment. It is extemely demeaning to refer to someone as a "looser" simple because they are "only" a user. It is the apparent elitist attitude that many seem to have that turns a lot of people away from Linux. I feel that such terms and your overall attitude are very condescending.
I've never felt comfortable with the term "luser" either -- it usually strikes me as yet another badly-spelled "1337 5p3ak haxor vocab" term until I remember it supposedly stands for "<L>ocal <USER>" or some such not-as-derogatory term... - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+23ypV/YHUqq2SwsRAr02AKCHEp85r2gYiS1uZE9aZVmJa6xidQCfewFA NBbZKjm5+4Dghbhp/gQjL3E= =CfXH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----