[SlugLUG] Help Me Choose

[cerise at armory.com]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 11:34:36AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Ah, so you cannot distinguish a cut and paste error from forgery, even
> when the poster himself immediately pointed it out and corrected it, but
> hasten with great glee to a public accusation of lying -- and refuse to
> come see for yourself that what the poster claimed was, in fact,
> absolutely correct.

   You're right.  Incompetence and dishonesty do often appear similar.  Of
course, they're difficult to distinguish from other rather unsavory personality
characteristics which you display, Rick.  Take your pick which one you'd rather
have ascribed to you and let's be done with this, shall we?
   I'm not sure from what you inferred "hasten with great glee".  I can only
assume that you read it somewhere and thought it looked cool.
   Furthermore, I've seen for myself that the version of tar in question does
and have offered to demonstrate that it definitely came from Debian.  You 
seem to be claiming that Debian's gotten better after this particular mishap
though you've utterly failed at saying so, though you've refused to acknowledge
this mishap and its severity.
   I ought to reiterate -- credibility is earned in my book.  One great way to
lose it is by distributing a binary (even if they've stopped at present) which 
removes historical options from a package which the maintainers have taken 
pains to leave in.
 
> > I don't particularly care what anyone thinks about me.
> 
> Thank you, sir.  That's exactly the the right note for you to exit on.

   I'm not sure why it would be.  This thread has been entirely about yours
(and infrequently Debian's) shortcomings.  I said nothing in particular about
how I felt about what people think of you or Debian.

-Phil/CERisE