Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jan Burse Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Where is JDK 1.7_15 going on Mac Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:18:55 +0100 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <0982caa7-0e0a-421d-8343-b04203e47a4b@googlegroups.com> <3fCdnfgxVZJoFrnMnZ2dnUVZ7vadnZ2d@bt.com> <93fzgudiaizs$.1jz9ss07cm1hh$.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net ONLtre2S40yP2aQTq0386wlPy8miht8EeuEGz6/7Gl43QEX9Srd7dgaivB3iD5LJY0Un6TeJfd+xHWEXTdDtoA== NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:18:52 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="swjPHTTXOQRYGD03SgsdMhSk+o8Inw/bxLe2Jczt0pMjFSyaHOggxmwegsoK52Vvbh8j7t5YBFjkfS9qjUPLOFbep6Uv+0dEqkAXQji1YqxStwxXnyisLvevj5/AVVHd"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0 SeaMonkey/2.15.2 In-Reply-To: <93fzgudiaizs$.1jz9ss07cm1hh$.dlg@40tude.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:cbW84+LnY5MWZxw2fRdG/+oTEn8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:22398 Joerg Meier schrieb: > Referring to the original poster of a thread as the OP is something that > has been around since before there was such a thing as web forums, let > alone stackoverflow. But even if it had come from SO, there would still be > no reason for your baselessly hostile reaction to a term that is nothing > but descriptive, and by no stretch of the imagination could be considered > derogatory. Well you can call an employee working in a bank a clerk, or a stewerdess from an airplane, etc.. But why on earth do I use a plain e-mail for posting here? Sure not to be called OP. I don't murne that it is derogartory. It is just lazy of OP+1 (i.e. Lew, I am not that lazy) to use OP. Bye