[LCP]statically linking argtable and other libraries

[Christian Jonassen]

Hi Buddy

I agree, indeed, that it would be better (and would take less time) to
skip over a message or hit the delete/archive/move/whatever key.

No wonder there's small traffic here.

 Christian N.J.

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 05:03:34 -0700, Buddy Lumpkin <b.lumpkin at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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