On Saturday 20 September 2003 23:48: 1. The welcome message received when subscribing this list says that the language to be used is English. The welcome message is composed in english language, too. I doubt that the welcome message is different when accessing the list from the german site. 2. All the other participants make an effort the break the barrier language by posting in English. I looked at the recent postings and are a few guys posting in broken English and apologizing about it. This is respect! 3. In our case, rudeness is speaking in an open forum using a language that is not used by all the participants and ignoring the guidelines given when joining the forum. And, beside this, is building a barrier language instead of trying to communicate better. br /radu
* Radu Pirvu (radu.pirvu@pp.inet.fi) [030920 13:38]:
I do not think that a mistake when replying a message it is as annoying as posting a polite message and getting as answer an arrogant and inept reply - as happened to Filippos. If you, Ben, get annoyed so easily maybe you should seek professional help.
Ok. If it was a mistake then I apologize to you. But many on other SuSE lists do not see the rudeness in this behavior and justify it vigorously even though it's rude.
You might not be on the SLE and other heavy trafficked lists so this might not irritate you. It does irritate me..it doesn't anger me and I don't need any help. I was just point out that one was more rude then the other.
And if some German posters have such a big problem with following the rules it would be advisable for the moderators to check this thing out. As well, this post is not directed towards Germans, but they are the only ones posting in their native language in an English mail list. I cannot see any messages in Bulgarian or Spanish!!!
The description on SuSE's web site says absolutely nothing about language so they just might not have known. The following is the description on the SuSE web site for the list.
"Discussions about installing and using KDE on SuSE Linux"
If one read that in German on the .de site..would you know what they rules were. I think not.
It's about rules and respecting the others! That's all! Ben & co, if you do not understand this, just forget the whole thing, please.
Consider it dropped after this email because you don't seem to understand what others and myself have said about "They might not have known and maybe their short reply was because of the language barrier..not rudeness." *shrug*
latah, -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.