Bad Patches and Issues with other devolopers

[Nick Krause]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:48:14 +0100, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar said:
>>
>> > oh man you have gained prominence in vger?
>> > They have banned you from vger.
>>
>> Wow. I've been around for a dozen years or so, and can't remember
>> *that* ever happening before. That takes some *major* doing, and
>> could take literally years to straighten out.  How to approach that?
>
>   *sigh* ... the fact that nick has, *single-handedly*, pissed off and
> wasted the time of numerous subsystem maintainers to the point where
> he has been banned from LKML and has, in addition, *single-handedly*
> turned the kernel newbies mailing list into his personal self-help
> playground means that he needs to be shown the door.
>
>   i don't want to sound unsympathetic, but it doesn't *matter* if this
> is nick's fault or not -- he is, quite simply, a disruptive influence
> and is, at the moment, turning this mailing list into chaos.
>
>   people are asking, can he be salvaged? to which the proper answer
> is, who cares? there are a *lot* of kernel newbies out there who would
> desperately like to get to the point where *they* can start submitting
> patches, and most of *those* people are willing to read and listen and
> follow the advice of the veterans to the point where they become
> useful contributors. nick is not.
>
>   it's massively ironic that countless people have told nick what he
> should be doing, to which his inveitable response is, "ok, but what
> should i be doing?"
>
>   if you want to help nick, knock yourself out but take it offline.
> nick has already wasted far too much bandwidth that could have been
> invested in helping newbies that are willing to *listen*.
>
> rday
>
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Robert,
I am trying to listen now and this was my fault.
Regards  Nick