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Richard Heathfield wrote:
> Anand Hariharan said:
>> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:20:28 +0000, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>> Anand Hariharan said:
> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> I'll agree to your use of /appear/. It is a great deal about
>>>> perception. There is a strong perception (no thanks to Joona
>>>> Palaste),
>>>
>>> Joona Palaste's time of activity in clc overlapped mine by at least
>>> a year, I think - and during that overlap I never got the impression
>>> that he was particularly anti-Indian. It would be a strange pastime
>>> for a Finn, would it not?
>>
>> I have no idea who Joona Palaste is (not even to the extent that if
>> this person is a he or a she), let alone suggesting to know the
>> typical Finn's pastimes.
>>
>> However, I am suggesting that Joona Palaste, in no small way,
>> contributed to the perception that I spoke of, above.
>
> Out of curiosity, would you be prepared to share your reasoning and/or
> evidence? I have every respect for your contributions to comp.lang.c,
> but then I have quite a bit of respect for Joona's contributions, too,
> and it seems wrong for me to let such an apparently negative comment
> about him pass without at least making an effort to understand why you
> are making that comment.
>
> <snip>
Maybe he's talking about these set of acrimonious threads?
<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/search?hl=en&group=comp.lang.c&q=Joona+Indians&qt_g=Search+this+group>
Note that Joona Palaste later tendered an apology. I wasn't around at
that time, nor did I read those threads in detail, but of what little I
have seen they seem to be a case of a tempest in a teapot.
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