On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Charles M. Hannum wrote:

> First of all, you're (not unusually) putting in words in my mouth.

Huh? I never mentioned you in the post, nor quoted anyone but the
person to whom I was replying.

> ...the exact statements
> regarding a particular piece of code are *rarely* relevant.  Even with
> the very nicest of words, some people just go off the deep end;

That's true. However, I'm not talking about those situations; I'm
talking about the fairly common situations where the words are far
from the nicest possible.

> Lastly, it is *EXTREMELY* rare for me to dismiss a patch without
> stating (usually in substantial detail) why.  It probably hasn't even
> happened in the last year.

I'm sure that's true.

> I do *not* appreciate being accused of
> such behavior after going so far out of my way to do exactly the
> opposite.

I'm not sure where you got the accusation from; I certainly didn't
accuse you of this in the post you replied to.

If you feel that my description of behaviour that turns off people
was describing your behaviour, perhaps then you should try to avoid
that sort of behaviour. On the other hand, if you feel that what
I described is not what you do, I fail to see your problem with my
post.

If you are quite successful in making sure that everybody you have
an encounter with is pleased with the result, my post really had
nothing to do with you at all.

cjs
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