From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 19:44:36 CDT
asadek@st-elias.com wrote:
>Only two mentions of newcomers in Mr. Whistler's long email.
>
Both of which are modified by restrictive relative clauses: "newcomers
who..." i.e. those among newcomers who are like this or that. Not
necessarily a reference to all.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Kenneth Whistler" <kenw@sybase.com>
>
>
>
>>The list becomes dysfunctional when newcomers who may be
>>blissfully ignorant of both the Unicode Standard in particular
>>and of standards development processes in general show up and
>>start ranting about how f'd up one thing or another is.
>>
>>
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>[...]
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>> Newcomers who show up and who immediately
>>start complaining and/or ranting will invariably find that
>>the forum (or list) "is not a very friendly place."
>>
>>
>
>
>Now, newcomers, feel welcomed but speak humbly and
>know your place.
>
I dunno, I was a newcomer here once--just about all of us were. And
most of us managed to "feel welcomed" and say what we needed to.
~mark
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