For your consideration: two people talking publicly -- one asks a proper question to the surrounding populace, get's an answer from a second in the crowd. first formulates a reply, and get's another answer from that same person. At this point a third party steps up and, for all intents and purposes interrupts, shouting at both (and anyone in earshot) "'you're doing it wrong!" Is this extremely rude? I find this is not only quite rude but highly insulting. In a face to face situation, I am entirely likely to tell the offender to shut up and go away. If I've seen this person do this repeatedly, I'm quite likely to be quite angry and heated about it. As long as I don't lay hands on, I'm actually fine, but s/he's quite likely to have hurt feelings and feel insulted while totally ignoring the insult they've already delivered. Is that OK? Is there a better way to address it? Some might say I've done the best thing possible in the first option... The conversation moves forward after a bit of tense back and forth. Some might say what I need to do is go and get a "cop" and have the rude, insulting, anti-social person addressed officially. Here, it seems the later is preferable... And I find myself in agreement. In the long haul, calling a cop (list admin?) clears the problem up. While the first one may FEEL faster, it actually doesn't fix the problem of individuals who feel entitled to force themselves into discussions while offer nothing of substance to that discussion. My apologies to all for my poor judgment. I did neither the list nor myself any service that way. In the future, I'll ignore miscreants and just mail the list admin. 'nuff said -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org