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[Savannah-hackers] Re: pup at savannah.gnu.org
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Mathieu Roy |
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[Savannah-hackers] Re: pup at savannah.gnu.org |
Date: |
04 Oct 2002 17:35:37 +0200 |
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"Bradley M. Kuhn" <address@hidden> said:
> I am bit concerned about this tone of this message. It didn't bother me;
> but the tone of it is not cordial at all. It makes it sound like we
> don't want people to use our servers for projects that are ramping up.
> It will surely insult people.
The message automatically sent is now updated.
Thanks.
>
>
> A message written like this would have been substantially better:
>
> Hi,
>
> It seems that the account on savannah for the project "pup" that you
> are associated with is not currently utilized.
>
> It doesn't seem to point to a homepage, the CVS tree and download areas
> are empty, and there don't seem to be any mailing lists.
>
> If you have plans to use this space to continue hosting it. However,
> we have a great deal of interest in savannah, and we want to host as
> many active projects as possible.
>
> We have hidden the project from the public search temporarily, until
> we hear from you about the project. If we don't hear from you in N
> days, we'll have to delete the project to save space. However, if the
> project becomes active, you are always welcome to recreate it.
>
>
> The difference between what I wrote and what is written below would make
> the world of difference. It looks like the text below was written by a
> non-native English speaker.
Right.
> The two texts have subtle differences in phrasing that makes it
> substantially more polite to a native English speaker.
>
>
> If you don't mind, I would be happy to look over statements in the future
> and give my feedback on the text before they are sent. Would you all
> mind doing that?
Good.
--
Mathieu Roy
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