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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: do { quit; } else { }
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 14:46:09 +0100
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On 13/05/2025 14:13, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 12.05.2025 20:44, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> But of course no one forces these annoyed people to read all posts;
>>> suggestions had already been given to just skip those inconvenient
>>> threads or subhreads.
>>
>> This comment sounds like hearing from a neighbor that I shouldn't
>> mind if his dog shits on my lawn, because I can easily step over
>> the shit.
> 
> This comparison says, unfortunately, a lot more about you than
> about anything else.

On the contrary, it says a lot more about you who choose to put 
your own agenda above the group dynamic because other people's 
opinions don't matter to you.

It was a while back now, but there was a time when I lobbied in 
this group for a slight relaxing of topicality rules - not by 
breaching those rules, but by inviting discussion, cavassing 
opinions, and collating them into a show of hands. By an 
overwhelming majority the group turned me down. I didn't tell 
them 'to hell with you, I'll discuss what I damn well want to, 
and if you don't like it, tough cheese'; I accepted the group's 
decision.

There may well be some subscribers here who remember that 
discussion and might be prepared to corroborate the above.

Nobody can stop you posting whatever the hell you like here... 
except you. So the question comes down to whether you are an 
adult with the capacity for self-control and the will to 
participate in a way that observes the customs of the people 
whose company you have sought, or whether you are just a spoiled 
teenager in an adult's body.

The choice is entirely yours.

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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