Enough already!

[Robert Brenstein]

>On Tuesday, June 8, 2004, at 09:37  PM, Dr.John R.Vokey wrote:
>
>>All,
>>   Sheesh! I have read too much fluff and politeness: it's like the 
>>whole RR list has become Canadian, eh.
>
>Well that's sort of interesting, knowing that not all Canadians 
>think alike like the rest of us on earth, but some having strong 
>opinions that tend to isolate or denigrate others, especially people 
>like us poor misguided Americans south of the border in some peoples 
>eyes or in our own eyes.
>

I hope I am not putting my foot in my mouth by responding to this 
thread, but I haven't read John's comments so badly. I think his two 
main points were

1. people posting about problems should try to control their temper 
and try to stay factual -- whining and aggravation does not help 
anyone (says me who did that at some ocassions :) although the state 
of buginess of Rev in some areas can be frustrating (hopefully this 
will change soon); but if one needs to vent their frustrations on the 
list, we should be able to accept them (although the post should be 
tagged accordingly)

2. some responses to bug reports or shortcomings of RR seem to be 
overly defensive about RR which can be intimidating and a possible 
turn-off (if someone needs a full-featured word processing field, it 
does not help extolling how RR can do million other things and is 
easy to program). Some of such emails would be better sent off-list 
for more direct and somber discussion.

Robert