Re: Distro Poll, what do you use?

Christopher Hunter wrote:

Firstly, if you have any kind of American educational certification,
it's /worthless/ in the rest of the world, so it's a long way below mine.

You know, Christopher, I have to take issue with this statement. It appears to me that you like to make some sweeping statements and generalizations ... and you're pretty good at making it sound like you did some research to back them up until someone actually checks up on you. And as I recall, you and some other posters to this thread virtually chased the poster 'wiredwiki' off usenet with your mean-spirited responses when he plugged his iTunes linux podcast ... which seemed innocent enough, especially since it appeared he was making a legitimate attempt to help linux noobs; the very purpose for which this group exists (or should exist).

And your assertion that American educational certificates are worthless in the rest of the world will be a big surprise to the thousands of foreign students at MIT, Stanford and several hundred other American institutions that come to the USA specifically for the educational opportunities that they can have only here. Not to say other countries don't have similar opportunities ... but they certainly don't have as many.

Please don't think I'm singling you out because of our previous disagreements. I DO AGREE that Dan C. is way out of line, and his notion that he can 'discover' some great secret about a poster because he can simply read the headers of a message is childish at best. But that's no reason for you to attack all the posters on Usenet that were educated in America. Maybe posters on this group ought to think of what you would say if you were standing with the others in a group, face to face ... sometimes harsh words are called for, but they should be directed at the appropriate person(s), not simply thrown out there to insult everyone and anyone just to make yourself more important.

Rich Leitner
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