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Re: [opensuse] An old story, six years later (OT, or NOT?)
- From: Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 07:44:38 +0200
- Message-id: <201008210744.38822.sven.burmeister@xxxxxxx>
Am Samstag, 21. August 2010, 02:02:27 schrieb Michael S. Dunsaavage:
Let me try to explain. He told somebody else that adding posts to a thread
like "make it stop" will not stop the thread because oneself contributes to it
by adding that kind of posts and triggering e.g. replies that tell that that
way will not work.
It's a simple explanation why it won't stop. It does not say anything about
whether the person who gives that hint does actually want the thread to die or
not. Those are two different things. It's like telling somebody else that
turning the water tap in the wrong direction does not make the water stop
flowing out of it. That statement does not mean that one wants to stop the
water, it just explains why whatever the other person does won't work.
HTH
Sven
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On 8/20/2010 7:54 PM, Brian K. White wrote:
On 8/20/2010 7:37 PM, Michael S. Dunsaavage wrote:
Yet you yourself are participating. You're telling the way to make the
thread die is to not comment at all to the thread, yet you commented to
it yourself. Had you send him a private email, it'd be different.
Because you would not be contributing to the thread. And it's awfully
naive of you to assume I didn't read your post. I've followed this
thread closely myself. So instructing a person on how to let it die by
yourself doing the opposite is quite hypocritical.
Where in any of my post did I say anything about wanting the thread to
stop? I never did. I neither want it to stop nor want it to continue
particularly. I want it to do whatever it will do. So where is the
irony in my posting to a thread that I never expressed any dislike of?
Follow along now. You, yes you Mister Brian K. White, are explaining to
a person how to make a thread stop. You're explanation is to not
contribute to the thread. Are you with me? So you yourself contributed
to the thread, thus going against your very own explanation of how to
make the thread stop. I don't know where you read I said you wanted it
stop, because in no place did I say or insinuate that.
Let me try to explain. He told somebody else that adding posts to a thread
like "make it stop" will not stop the thread because oneself contributes to it
by adding that kind of posts and triggering e.g. replies that tell that that
way will not work.
It's a simple explanation why it won't stop. It does not say anything about
whether the person who gives that hint does actually want the thread to die or
not. Those are two different things. It's like telling somebody else that
turning the water tap in the wrong direction does not make the water stop
flowing out of it. That statement does not mean that one wants to stop the
water, it just explains why whatever the other person does won't work.
HTH
Sven
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