From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e08c98d7ce85399 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: Kindness Date: 1999/09/02 Message-ID: <37CE93CD.799A225A@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 520195640 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@bogon.pwfl.com References: <37CC6844.AB898EEE@rational.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: e108678@pwflcom Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Mark Lundquist wrote: > I hate to see people get trashed on for asking an innocent question! > This is a bit of a non-sequiter. There are often rude posts to this (and other) newsgroups - sometimes justified, sometimes not. A specific example may be in order - unless there is some desire not to hold up otherwise respected members of the community to public rebuke. Things that smell of students trying to get there homework done for them generally deserve some sort of "rude" scolding. Questions from the merely ignorant should be treated with patience, understanding and a bit of humility. (There was a time *we* were new at it too and asked questions that seemed obvious to others.) I think it is useful to look at such questions as an opportunity to help others and give back some of what we've been given - not as opportunities to show off how smart we are or to massage our own egos by tearing down others. MDC -- Marin David Condic Real Time & Embedded Systems, Propulsion Systems Analysis United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600, West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 ***To reply, remove "bogon" from the domain name.*** Visit my web page at: http://www.mcondic.com/