Re: gEDA-user: POLL: On politeness

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 06:31:18PM -0500, Frank wrote:
> I was just wondering if you guys think think the emails of Marc Price
> are a breach of politeness etiquette and dimishes the quality of this

I would need to have a definition of the etiquette to check every point
of it with every message to see if something was breached or not to
determine this.

> mailing list? Should this person be removed from the mailing list? I

No, because the person is pointing out real usability problems of gEDA
and this way contributing to improvement. The negative tone of his
message is cause by his emotion "I am pissed off" which is caused by
lack of usability in gEDA. Lack of usability if gEDA is caused by
inability of the developers to understand particular usability problems.
Therefore if we used transitivity, we could say that gEDA developers are
causing these negatively toned e-mails themselves.

> include his postings below.
> 
> Personally, I found that the regulars here to be extremely helpful and
> they don't deserve that kind of crap.

He is helpful as well.

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> Frank
> 
> 
> 
> Excerps from Marc Price's emails
> 5:08PM
> And im having a break now cos im totally pissed off with geda.
> Marc
> 
> 4:37PM
> Oh Well if a newbie cant work out what footprint you might as well scrap
> Geda right now It will be consigned to the grave yard of electronics
> programs.
> Marc
> 
> 4:25PM
> I Guess i got to say footprint= but still havent worked out what for
> diodes resistors capacitors
> also wouldnt it make sense for Gschem to have a drop down list of
> footprints and you just select the one you want .
> Marc
> 
> 4:15PM
>  I dont think that anyone who has written these wiki has ever heared of
> KISS
> KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID
> Marc
> 
> 4:10PM
> This wiki is a nightmare   >:o
> Marc
> 
> 3:47PM
> Im not reading Bill Wilsons Tutorial I Dont Want to be influenced by it
> im Writting my own
> I am looking to Work this out in a few easy steps
> firstly why am i getting all these footprint errors.
> Marc
> 
> 2:53PM
> I need to make this so simple a chimp could do it then i can add it to
> my tutorial
> Can you tell me how in say 3 to whatever easy commands that a newbie can
> understand
> for example i went to a terminal and typed gsch2pcb and went ahhhhhhhhh
> blank expression.
> Im asking this for the benefit of all newbies :-P
> Marc