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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Dr J R Stockton wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn posted:
>>  Although I do revisions of the FAQ on my own, I do not consider it my
>>  job as FAQ maintainer/editor to find the borken/missing link, or to
>>  anticipate your wishes.
> 
> You are not maintainer of the newsgroup FAQ; that requires the general
> assent of the newsgroup, and a willingness to be guided by the members
> of the group.
> 
> You are, instead, a plagiarist in breach of the principles of copyright
> - among your other social defects.

,<news:2715826.m0UDekTA75@PointedEars.de>
,<https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.javascript/yvxh6sd5deU/OVlYGsRKIIYJ>
| 
| Here is how I would like this to work for a start: 
| 
| - Glaringly obvious errors I will fix by myself.  (But you are welcome to 
|   point them out to me anyway.  See below.) 
| 
| - In order to keep the number of discussions in the newsgroup on this FAQ 
|   to a minimum (like someone here said so aptly, “Let's discuss 
|   JavaScript!”), I am going to 
| 
|   * search the newsgroup for <FAQENTRY> sections, and past postings as 
|     free time permits; 
| 
|   * read follow-ups to FAQ postings; 
| 
|   * welcome your suggestions for improvement via e-mail; to my Reply-To 
|     address if possible, to my From address if the Reply-To address is not 
|     feasible for you; 
| 
|   * select a collection of suggestions for discussion in the newsgroup, on 
|     a regular basis if possible.  I will hear your opinions, discuss those 
|     suggestions (and only those) with you in public, and finally make an 
|     informed decision based on those discussions.  (Because given the
|     length of and diversity in this thread already, I seriously doubt it
|     will be possible to do this in a reasonable way based on group
|     consensus, let alone a majority vote; AFAIK, previous maintainers also
|     never operated on such a basis.  Sorry.) 
| 
| […]
| 
| - Although the copyright statement of the current FAQ is ambiguous to say 
|   the least, as Patricia pointed out, I have no intention of infringing 
|   copyright.  Those who would like their contributions to be removed from 
|   that FAQ may request that.  However, the burden of proof lies with the 
|   person requesting removal of content. 
`----

(To which you replied only “Drop dead.”)

So if you think you have made a considerable contribution to the original 
FAQ, and do not want it in the new FAQ, you can request removal of that 
content under those terms.  We will then just have to get along without your 
help.

> You are of course fully entitles to write your own material, /ab
> initio/, on your own Web site; but few will find it beneficial.

On the other hand, if you think this newsgroup needs an up-to-date, 
factually correct FAQ, for once you could do something *constructive* and 
support a good cause.  If you are willing to start communicating in a 
civilised manner, I am willing to let bygones be bygones, and would 
appreciate any suggestions you may have.
 
> And your persistent use of "borken" betrays your immaturity - or
> ineducability.

No, your persistent complaining betrays your ignorance of the fact that you 
are within a (hacker) subculture here which, necessarily, has its own rules 
and jargon that is practised by the people who are also within that 
subculture, and who define it by their mere presence and personality.  And 
that, unfortunately, you are not getting the pun.

That is particularly curious as you appear to be even more fond than me of 
using acronyms from that very jargon (“YSCIB”, “KETFOB”, and so on).

<http://catb.org/jargon/html/>
<http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/borken.html>
<http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/acronyms.htm#Acro>

-- 
PointedEars, ed.

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