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RE: Who hasn't been badly flamed?
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: "'The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 01:10:05 -0500
- Subject: RE: Who hasn't been badly flamed?
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
> From: Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 10:51 PM
> To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List
> Subject: Re: Who hasn't been badly flamed?
>
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 09:16:22PM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
> > From: Christopher Faylor
>
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:36:19PM -0500, Gary R. Van
> Sickle wrote:
>
> > >[snip]
>
> >>>It is funny sometimes what people consider to be a
> "flame". Sometimes
> >>>people do rude or inconsiderate things which, while lacking any
> >>>vituperative language can, nonetheless serve as fodder for an
> >>>aggrieved reaction. The original mailer can fall back on
> "I didn't say anything"
> >>>but, in reality, they are just trolls. I think I'll take a good
> >>>flame over a troll any day.
> >>
> >>Hookay, let's just save this one up for future use, shall we? ;-)
> >
> >Huh? Are you taking something in the above personally?
> >
> >No Chris, you've misunderstood my comment. I know a guy who does
> >exactly what you describe on a periodic basis[1]. Sometimes
> it sounds
> >like he doesn't even realize he does it, though I'm pretty sure he
> >does. At any rate, by "save this one up for future use", I simply
> >meant that, should the opportunity present itself, showing him your
> >exposition may be instructive and/or informative to him.
>
> Ah. So, I still didn't have this quite right.
>
> After my coffee, I had thought that you were implying that
> you were going to remind me of my preference for "flaming
> over trolling" the next time you indulged in a flame.
The "next" time I indulged in a "flame"? Perhaps it is my turn to do some
rereading, in particular your post of what you consider the definition of
"flame" is. I don't recall "flaming" anybody here by any definition I'm
aware of. It's certainly not the reason I've been here for an age and a
half.
> I
> thought you might have been poking a little bit of fun at
> yourself
I'm far too serious for such shenanigans.
;-)
> rather than (my original impression) taking
> something I said personally. I apologized because I thought
> you were doing something sort of self-deprecating and I'd
> initially missed it. Thanks for setting me straight and
> apologies for still getting it wrong. I haven't been getting
> much sleep lately and it is beginning to show.
>
Certainly there are no apologies necessary for an honest misunderstanding.
> You have a good idea there. I think I'll hold onto my
> apology for similar reasons. The next time I come up against
> someone who refuses to admit any fault I can use my message
> as an example of how someone who thinks they made a mistake
> can honestly apologize for it rather than trying to cover up
> or ignore it.
>
Look at that: Got lemons, make lemonade, everybody wins!
> >[1] I think; I still don't know what "vituperative" means.
> I gotta buy
> >myself a dictionary one of these days.
>
> I use dictionary.reference.com, myself. I even checked that
> I was using vituperative the way I meant to when I used the above.
>
> Actually, now that I think of it, I keep meaning to switch to
> en.wiktionary.org.
>
> References below.
>
Thanks, but I must have missed your use of "erudite". That one I did know.
> I'm glad that we're finally starting to get along, btw.
The Chris Faylor that I've seen here for the past month or so and I have
always gotten along, and always will. It's the other, less well-behaved one
that pops up from time to time that causes me and many others considerable
concern.
> I do
> think highly of your technical ability
Well thank you. As I believe I have stated several times in the past, the
feeling is more than mutual.
> and, as you know, I've
> always appreciated your sense of humor.
<blush> It's my gift, it's my curse.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle