On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 10:35, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: > On 27 Jan 2003, Jason A. Pfeil wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 09:05, iain wrote: > > [...snip...] > > > Headline: Gnome-Media 2.2.0 "No War On Iraq" Released. > > > Unrelated Websites: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/ > > > : http://www.antiwar.com/ > > [...snip...] > > > > Yes, the release codenames in the past have been cute. This, however, > > is going WAY out of bounds. This is an announcement about a piece of > > software, not a mailing list of people who share your socio-political > > viewpoint. Please do not use this list as a political soapbox, as this > > is not the target of this list and you will likely generate off-topic > > flamewars. > > Hm, it is just a release name, and some links, so nothing obtrusive. > I don't see iain using the list as a political soapbox, and I don't feel > it was being used as such. What I mean is, your reaction to it is far > more obvious as a socio-political viewpoint. > Unfortunately, that is not a valid assumption. I may be pro-war or I may be anti-war. I, however, do not feel that one side should put such a potentially incendiary viewpoint, which btw is off-topic, in their posts, regardless of whether or not I agree with the viewpoint. Regards, --Jason > Thomas -- Jason A. Pfeil pfeil 10East com Senior Open Systems Engineer http://www.10East.com 10East, Inc. (904)220-DOCS
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