[Mailman-Users] Re: remove this?

[blaise at scadian.net]

On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:32:54PM -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> 
> > It has always seemed childish to me for
> > someone to reply to a message only to say, in essence, "I know the answer
> > to your question but I'm not going to tell you because you are either not
> > worthy enough in some way, or I think you are going to do something silly
> > with the information."  Why not just answer the question, or ignore it?
> 
> We did answer the question -- just not with the answer you wanted. If we
> ignore it, it just gets asked again, louder, with a "why are you idiots
> ignoring me?" whine attached...

No, you didn't answer it -- you responded to it without answering it.
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