Re: This is the kind of [expletives deleted] answer that is certain to prevent bugs being reported.

Daniel Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 13:18, Per Jessen<per@computer.org> wrote: >> >> As for being aggressive - well, being fobbed off with an RTFM when >> >> 1) I've spent some time and effort in testing, documenting and >> reporting the bug, and >> 2) the behaviour is at best undocumented, >> >> well, yes, it p...... me off.  It's just not professional and not at >> all conducive to getting any more bugs reported. > > Per; > > We only reply like that when writing to you. Everyone else gets > nice responses, but.... well, we just plain hate you, man. We took a > vote and it was unanimous. Coincidentally, we also spoke with some of > your relatives, and as it turns out, they want you out of the family > as well. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Good luck in life. I knew it. I did. There's a good reason I haven't lived in my home country for some 17 years ..... :-) > In reality, those are canned responses. Jani didn't type that up > himself, he just selected it from a drop-down that we have. In all honesty, that only makes it worse. To make an effort to improve on things only to be told to eff off by a machine operated by a braindead individual. > It's worded very directly so as to reach a broad scope of folks --- > many of whom don't speak English as well as yourself. So don't take > offense, because it's not meant to be either offensive or dismissive. Too late Dan - offense already taken. The response was dimwitted, offensive and dismissive, intended or not. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.6°C)