Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Janis Papanagnou Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: do { quit; } else { } Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 11:19:33 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: <1001n76$2e1ib$1@dont-email.me> References: <8634enhcui.fsf@linuxsc.com> <86ldsdfocs.fsf@linuxsc.com> <20250406162607.0000657a@yahoo.com> <867c3xfhkk.fsf@linuxsc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 11:19:34 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="152f87c7eebf342bc07c5c393ba92fe5"; logging-data="2557515"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/qeSIa8DjkkZ6OWyYIBvpT" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qOKo0USsHi/8C3nynmtnNA/uoOs= In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Bytes: 2663 On 13.05.2025 15:36, David Brown wrote: > On 13/05/2025 14:54, Janis Papanagnou wrote: > [...] >> >> I think with a good grain of serenity we could also spare us those >> longish threads. Let's individually pick and choose what we like. >> > > No, let's not. Let's - at least occasionally - take some responsibility > and not ignore inappropriate behaviour. I don't want to drag this out, > or overreact - Bonita's posts are not /that/ bad. But be clear on this: > it was not Richard's post berating Bonita that made a long thread branch > about topicality, it was /your/ post complaining about his post. Erm, no. I wasn't complaining, just giving a suggestion. That's something completely different in my book. A suggestion can be dismissed or be helpful. The posters decide. WRT who made the thread branch become long; every meta discussion contributes a bit, and it becomes long if we latch on posts and meta-topics - as we two currently seem to start. This was not my intention which merely was to suggest just a bit more serenity (and not discuss too deeply what's "appropriate or inappropriate behavior"). Janis