[LCP]statically linking argtable and other libraries

[Buddy Lumpkin]

Greg feels like more of a guru by playing up how little others know. He
loves to insult people and his emails are dripping with condescension. I
once referred to him as being a jerk in a private thread and he became angry
because I made a "personal attack".

I am puzzled how someone can rank such a benign insult so much higher than
being down right grumpy, short and rude to virtually everyone that posts to
this list. His tone is as though the emails were addressed to him
specifically rather than the entire list.

I would much rather be called a jerk (especially if it is frank feedback)
than be talked to the way Greg talks to people.

I am curious how many people actually believe that he spends less time
writing condescending comments than the amount of time it would take to just
skip over a message or hit the delete key.

He's just not a very happy person.

--Buddy




-----Original Message-----
From: linuxcprogramming-admin at lists.linux.org.au
[mailto:linuxcprogramming-admin at lists.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of Christian
Jonassen
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 4:24 AM
To: linuxcprogramming at lists.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [LCP]statically linking argtable and other libraries

Hi

This discussion was the first for me in this list.
Not a too good first impression, eh?
I have seen people like this in IRC channels, USENET, and on other
mailing lists.
It's not useful. And I wonder what people want to achieve by telling
others to read the documentation/manual.

Now I wonder, Greg: Do you know the answer of this question?
If you do, you should help this guy.
If not, you shouldn't post.

As David said, you're probably a nice guy, helpful and all that, but
you don't show it.

And, if he has come to that level, asking that kind of advance
questions, chances are that he hasn't learned everything by asking
others like he's doing now.

 - Christian N.J.


On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:30:16 +0100, David Spencer
<david.w.spencer at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Christopher Baus wrote:
> 
> >>>Have you considered reading the documentation?
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >FYI  I spent the entire weekend reading the libtool manual and trying to
> >figure out what the heck is going on with this NSS, glibc, gcc, Linux,
> >etc.  This is not a question a beginner would ask.  The documentation,
> >especially on the glibc side is sparce at best.  The linker spits out
> >strange warnings if you pass -static-all to libtool and call
> >gethostbyname() or other DNS functions.
> >
> >Why is there mailing list here if you can't answer a question like this,
> >or at least point me the right direction?  It isn't like I am asking a
> >question on what char* is or something.
> >
> >I came here has a last resort.  If this isn't the right mailing list what
> >is? glibc doesn't seem to have a public mailing list.  The closest is the
> >alpha mailing list.  The question involves three components of the gnu C
> >tool chain on linux.  Where do you suggest I post this question?
> >
> >In fact I have a suggestion.  Since there is no traffic and you all are
> >too smart to answer questions on C development on linux, why don't you
> >just shut the list down, save others the hassle of subscribing and
getting
> >lame responses like this.
> >
> >
> >
> Excellent point Chris.  Mailing lists are for help, not for put-downs.
> 
> Five of the six messages in my Trash from the person who said RTFM are
> put-downs of one sort or another, and the one that isn't is only
> arguably useful.  Perhaps I'm biased because he's used this list to put
> me down as well.  Personally I'm inclined to plonk Greg, but he may one
> day type something genuinely useful.
> 
> So, Greg, why are you here?  Do you intend to help people
> constructively, or only put them down?  Isn't there enough negativity in
> the world, that you feel you have to add more?  Perhaps it's just your
> keyboard style.  You're probably a really nice guy, and really helpful,
> but I really can't say that either come across at all.
> 
> Come to think of it, why am _I_ here?  I don't do Linux C programming,
> there is very little traffic here and only a small percentage of it is
> interesting.
> 
> See y'all, when I find the relevant unsubscribe incantation.
> 
> Dave.
> 
> 
> 
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