Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Gladrags and Handbags

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>     > From: hampshire-bounces@???
>     <mailto:hampshire-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk> [mailto:hampshire-
>     <mailto:hampshire->
>     > bounces@??? <mailto:bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk>] On
>     Behalf Of Keith Edmunds
>     > Sent: 15 January 2012 11:04
>     > To: hampshire@??? <mailto:hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk>
>     > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Gladrags and Handbags (was: Re:
>     Help! I'm
>     > buying a laptop.)

>     [snip]

>     > This is true of LUG lists in general, not just this one.

>     It's interesting that this should crop up now - or coincidental at the
>     least.   Several years ago, I used to read Alan Cox's blog - though I
>     confess I couldn't make much sense of it.   His wife's blog was quite
>     interesting too.  He stopped several years ago but yesterday, I
>     thought it
>     might be fun to see what he's doing now so hunted around a bit and came
>     across [1] via wikipedia.

>     I wasn't part of the original "incident" (or whatever you want to
>     call it)
>     on this list but [1] really shows just how things can escalate over
>     email.
>     Here we have the grand daddy of the entire OS which spawned our list
>     IMHO
>     really having a go at someone for whom if I was ever mentioned in
>     the same
>     breath I'd be satisfied.   I don't take sides as I don't know either
>     AC or
>     LT personally - but what I will say is I suspect all of this could
>     have been
>     sorted out with a phone call and a beverage of some description.

>     Email is great - but by goodness things can escalate out of hand -
>     and that
>     is not a backhanded criticism of anyone on this list - just meant to
>     show
>     that even the "greatest" of us can have a barney over email.   If
>     you read
>     other articles it seems that AC got so fed up - he walked away from
>     kernel
>     hacking.

>     [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/28/373

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