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<h1>Re: I don´t like that</h1>
<b>David Mosberger-Tang</b> (<a href="mailto:David.Mosberger@acm.org"><i>David.Mosberger@acm.org</i></a>)<br>
<i>Sun, 5 Apr 1998 14:06:42 -0700</i>
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<i>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; On Sun, 05 Apr 1998 21:41:06 +0200, Christian Bucher &lt;<a href="mailto:cbucher@vernetzt.at">cbucher@vernetzt.at</a>&gt; said:</i><br>
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  Christian&gt; Probably I´ll make me very unpopular with what I´ve to<br>
  Christian&gt; say now. But I really don´t like the way some questions<br>
  Christian&gt; on this mailing list are answered. If there is somebody<br>
  Christian&gt; frustrated cause there is no other sense in his life or<br>
  Christian&gt; he head a bad last night with his wife, leaf it at<br>
  Christian&gt; home. I think most requests are really a problem for the<br>
  Christian&gt; people who make it. And I can sea no reasen to respond<br>
  Christian&gt; unfriendly.<br>
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I'd hope everyone would agree with you!<br>
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Yes, some of the questions to this list (and any mailing list indeed)<br>
are phrased impolitely or outright rude, but let's keep in mind that<br>
for a lot of people English is a second or third language so they may<br>
not be aware of their questions sounding rude.  And, quite frankly, I<br>
prefer a poorly phrased question in English than one in Lituanian or<br>
Zulu... ;-)<br>
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I certainly don't want to encourage censorship, but I found that, for<br>
me, it works much better to simply ignore questions that I find<br>
impolite, rude, or otherwise offensive.<br>
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	--david<br>
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