From: Russell Marks (russell.marks@dtn.ntl.com)
Date: Wed 16 Feb 2000 - 12:33:40 IST
[Ok, since this has been public so far, I thought it best to cc this to linux-svgalib, even though that may not be entirely appropriate. BTW, thanks to everyone who said they found my first post funny, I appreciate knowing I at least got things partly right. :-)] > I apologize for my overreaction to your post. I *did* find it humorous, at > first, but then it appeared that you were deliberately mocking my efforts. I don't quite understand how it could have happened like that, but I do now recognise that the first paragraph (with `Experts', `widely-read', and `kind of silly') could easily have been read as sarcastic, even offensively so. I'm sorry about that. It was meant to represent how the press exaggerate `tech' stories and take them out of context. (The way the recent DoS attacks against high-profile sites have been hyped up to mind-bending proportions is a perfect example.) > Certainly, as I said, it is not my intention to make enemies, least of > all with the "God of Zgv", and I'm sorry that I misread your joke. Blimey, let's not overplay zgv's importance, eh? :-) (Or mine, for that matter!) I know there aren't *that* many svgalib `apps' as such, which makes it marginally significant in some respects, but it's just a picture viewer. > I suppose, in retrospect, that I should have written to you privately > instead of sharing my consternation with the entire world. Your post was no more public than mine, so it was only fair IMHO. FWIW, I think "entire world" may be overstating things a little. :-) > I hope we can begin afresh. Again, my apologies. Ok, no problem. -Rus.
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