New subject: Reverse engineering flamefest, was: HP 9830A always turns, on with blank display

30 Jul 2013

OnSun, 28 Jul 2013 12:37:52 -0500, "MikeS" <dm561 at torfree.net> wrote:
...
   >Date: Sun,
28 Jul 2013 09:25:44 +0200
 >From: Jonas Otter<jonas at otter.se>
 >
 >How about y'all stopping flogging this by now very dead horse?
 >
 >If you don't want to fight via private email, then please don't do it in
 >public either. You are only showing the rest of the world how rude you
 >can be and how clever you think you are.
 >
 >I am not addressing this to anyone in particular, because I do not want
 >to get involved, only to get you to stop making d**ks of yourselves in
 >public.
 >
 >By all means say what is wrong or right in someone's schematic, but
 >please keep the personal attacks out of it.
 >
 >/Jonas
 >  ----- Reply:

 +1 Agreed!

 OK, Tony seems to push the buttons of a few people on here who don't get his
 particular brand of humour/irony and are also not willing to consider his
 circumstances and cut him any slack, but IMO this particular personal attack
 is almost completely unjustified. I'm actually quite surprised since it
 seems out of character for my left-coast fellow Canuck, for whom I've always
 had a great deal of respect until this childish rant/personal attack; I hope
 he's OK...

 m
 Some of us have personalities which are special in one way or another, 
which is to be expected in a hobby like this one. I think it is 
important to allow other people the benefit of the doubt. If someone 
says something that one at first takes personally, one can always ask 
politely what they meant, as it is quite likely that one has 
misunderstood what the other person meant.
Tony in particular, apart from his British humour, I believe is very 
uncompromising about doing what he thinks is right, for which I think he 
deserves respect, and even if one disagrees with his idea of what is 
right, one has to accept that that is the way he is, just as we expect 
to be accepted the way we are.

/Jonas