[mapserver-users] beginner getting started

[Martin, Daniel]

When writing the thread I was being VERY careful to chose my words because I
wanted to make 100% sure I didn't offend anyone.  Yet they did.  For that I
apologize to the list.

I would like to know what offended the members of the list, so I can avoid
it in the future.  I've read, and re-read the thread.  I can't find the holy
war.  I can't find the Windows bashing.  I can't find the Linux bashing.  I
can't find the ranting.  Maybe I'm just blind to my own words.  

I really don't want to be stuck with a cloud of concern over my head every
time I post that it might offend members of the list.  I do feel that way
now, and for now I think I'll keep off the list.

Please do let me know, privately or publicly.

-Dan Martin





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerald Thornberry [mailto:gthornberry at sdimaps.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 4:35 PM
> To: mapserver
> Subject: RE: [mapserver-users] beginner getting started
> 
> 
> Clarification:
> 
> The help that the respondents originally rendered in this thread was
> great.  Subsequent responses, however, were becoming increasingly
> emotionally charged rather than informative and it galled me that:
> 
> 1.  The new user was no longer being served by their own thread
> 2.  Yet another counter-productive OS holy war was brewing
> 
> My post was a gut response to the same, old Windows vs.Linux argument,
> when they both suck and don't suck in their own ways.  I was trying to
> call attention to the unprofessional, argumentative _tone_ of 
> the thread
> rather than say that any _person_ was unprofessional.  Bottom line:  I
> wasn't trying to call anybody names.  If I offended anyone, I 
> apologize.
> 
> I prefer to use Linux and OpenBSD myself.  As a Tech Support Manager,
> though, I try to simply stay agnostic and be a "solve the problem with
> the right wrench" kind of person.  Often that involves using Microsoft
> Windows OSs.  An objective comparison of operating systems would, in
> fact, be very relevant to the MapServer forum.  If someone takes the
> time to genuinely compare them I hope you post the results.  It would
> benefit the MapServer user-base, especially new users, very much.
> 
> The MapServer list is a public forum, and I'm certainly not its
> moderator.  I'm just a subscriber who didn't feel like 
> hearing a rehash
> of tired, old Linux vs. Windows rants.  I encourage anyone who has
> advice, instruction, or opinion about MapServer to speak openly (as I
> did). 
> 
> Gerald
> 
> -- 
> Gerald Thornberry
> Technical Support Manager
> Spatial Data Integrations, Inc.
> (502)568-3628
>