Re: Demystifying the Politburo (was: Re: Arabic encoding model (alas, static!))

From: asadek@st-elias.com
Date: Thu Jul 07 2005 - 18:59:44 CDT

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    Only two mentions of newcomers in Mr. Whistler's long email.

    ----- 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.

    [...]

    > 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.

    Ashraf Sadek

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