Re: "shouted down", "shot down", apologies

["Fred T. Hamster" <fred at gruntose dot com>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

    It still boils down to how much work I am willing to put into this
    project. I think I have become convinced that time spent answering
    questions here is, by and large, not appreciated. You can see it in
    the zip MS-DOS path thread. I tried to respond quickly with the
    rationale for the apparent bug but was quickly accused of "disdain"
    -- apparently because I wasn't interested in spending my time fixing
    that particular problem.

uh, here's the text being referenced:

Fred opined:
in my opinion, one cannot simultaneously disdain the win32 path conventions and yet also promote a product that is intended 
exclusively for win32 without resorting to some form of schizophrenia.

note that the text is not referring to any particular person as 
disdaining.  it is a general statement of opinion about the state of 
mind potentially involved in such a standpoint.  it could just as easily 
have applied to myself as to anyone else on the list.
  again, i admit that my choice of words may have been unfortunately 
outrageous.  i apologize for that again.
  i really appreciated your explaining your viewpoint in the first 
posting on this thread, chris.  i apologize for my role in all of this 
if your openness gave people some feeling that bashing you or the list 
or the product was what you were inviting.
  i still think that several people took comments of mine personally, 
when they were meant to be applied to a potential attitude (which no one 
may even have).  i suck.  i'm sorry.
  however, please don't warp what i said into something it was not.  i 
did appreciate your comments explaining the rationale, but i had (and 
have) a basic logical disconnect with them and with how i was hoping to 
use the product.  i didn't think you were disdaining me, but i thought 
that in general there was some disdain (exhibited by multiple list 
posters) for win32 pathnames.  i have that disdain too, but i often have 
to use win32 paths, regardless of how i feel about them.
  anyway, i really am hoping that people can increase the amount of 
respect they exhibit towards others on this list (and within all 
internet mailing lists and newsgroups).  i've seen newbie posts that are 
just as corrosive as some of the comments that annoyed experts have 
made.  to quote rodney king (my favorite example of a man who has been 
terribly beaten but still wants to recover and move past it): "why can't 
we all just get along?".
thanks,
fred.

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