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Re: where is alt.religion.emacs?


From: Jorge Araya Navarro
Subject: Re: where is alt.religion.emacs?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:35:54 -0600

Well, I often get surprised when the communication tone of some tech people 
isn't ice-cold! I can think on a
couple of developers that use a friendly tone, right now.

Emanuel Berg writes:

> dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de (H. Dieter Wilhelm)
> writes:
>
>>> alt.religion.emacs is about the Church of Emacs,
>>> right?
>>
>> From the posts I read so far I think this mailing
>> list was often transcending even this encompassing
>> subject. ;-)
>
> Ha ha ha :)
>
> But some technology people are religious in style. And
> I say that in the negative, fundamentalistic sense. It
> has come to the point when the technology isn't the
> main thing anymore, but rather the set of rules - the
> "right way" to do things... just as modern-day
> fundamentalists chant their slogans (who cares about
> God anymore when there are a zillion rules to obey at
> all times, and infidels to kill).
>
> Here, when we argue back-and-forth on lists and
> newsgroups such as this there is often a tone which is
> ice-cold and (seemingly) without any human touch.
> While insults and obscene language should never be
> made a virtue, perhaps newcomers should be made aware
> somehow that the albeit insult-free but still ice-cold
> tone, it is just the tone that a bunch of tech-people
> use to communicate. Don't worry about it.
>
> I say this because when I use the same tone here at
> other places, there is always a big holaballo and that
> has surprised me numerous times. People are just not
> used to it.

-- 
Pax et bonum.
Jorge Araya Navarro.
ES: DiseƱador Publicitario, Programador Python y colaborador en Parabola 
GNU/Linux-libre
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