Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ukma!rutgers!cmcl2!adm!news From: ZCCBJSB%EB0UB011.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Josep Sau B.) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: RE: RE: Obnoxiousness Message-ID: <26560@adm.brl.mil> Date: 15 Apr 91 18:57:44 GMT Sender: news@adm.brl.mil Lines: 65 Timo Salmi said David J Leitko (davidjl@eecs.ee.pdx.edu) said about his (Timo's) "obnoxious mails": >> ... >> I am surprised when I don't see you respond to a novice question >> with some condescending remark. >> Why don't you try to give these guys a little respect? Well, up to now I've never felt any lack of respect in Timo's interventions, and I must thank him for more than one hint, be it by reference or by value, for my works/divertimentos. >> Remember, you were a novice once. I fears of the day I won't feel a novice anymore, that day I will be too old to program, too young to die... (paraphrasing Jethro...). >> And to distribute mis-information simply adds injury to insult. Entropia it's an inherent tendency of this universe, we can't stop it, just try to delay thermic death... >> I've also seen you put more effort into finding one of >> your programs that demonstrates how to do something so >> they can "ftp it from garbo" than it would have taken >> to type in the whole three line program... Whoever may be free of guilty, he/she may throw the first rock... During eight years juggling with these machines, I've never met a true good programmer that does not like to promote his/her works (thought true bad programmers do too). >>... >> Thank you. That's okey. No harm, all this is just mockery... And Timo replies: >... >I think that it is more productive in the long run to > help people to know how to easily find answers to their > questions rather than simply feed all the answers. I must admit that was really annoying in the beginning, but now it's okey to know where to begin to search. >... >and refrain more from public posting, >if my postings are considered this offensive. You'll do as you think it's right, but every morning it is gratifying to receive some intelligent mails, be them from anywhere. --Josep Sau '...and he amazed with the marvels that are in the world, and he asked about things he did not understand, and he taught about things he knew.' Raimundus Lulius - _Llibre_de_Meravelles_