Stephane,
  There's a book of Eric Hobsbawm called "Bandits" (especially the updated
Revised Edition) that you, or anyone interested in the topic, will enjoy to
read. There's even a free french translation on-line here :
http://www.editions-zones.fr/spip.php?page=lyberplayer&id_article=79

Hernán

2009/2/4 stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse at free.fr>

> I should say that I do not understand vandalism in general.
> I'm estonished by bad energy people can have.
> On our kids wiki in 1998 we got really stupid and ugly picture posted and I
> never understood
> so we just blocked the pages (but there were not smalltalkers I imagine).
>
> Stef
>
>
>
> On Feb 1, 2009, at 4:49 PM, Alejandro F. Reimondo wrote:
>
>  Hi Stef and Squeakers,
>>
>> Stef said:
>>
>>> It was clear that was not a Squeaker that wrote this shit.
>>>
>>
>> Do you know or made any investigation about
>> ideas related with been a Squeaker that serve
>> to moredate/orientate/control the personality of
>> a Squeaker?
>> (e.g. my swiki have been violated many times by
>> people that I know has knowledge about Squeak,
>> no deep knowledge I must say, but approx. one
>> year of "been a Squeaker" or so)
>>
>> In the past I made studies trying to find
>> a relation or pattern  in common between smalltalkers
>> and I found more evidence of bad attitudes than
>> good attitudes in practice (under human pov).
>> It was frustrating for me at that time, but it did not
>> stop me.
>> I invested more efforts trying to understand a relation
>> between the smalltalk architecture/design/formula
>> and how it affects persons and how they evaluate
>> the results of their actions (in reality, not in the systems
>> they build with smalltalk).
>>
>> I think that Stef have not had the intention to promote
>> a dialog about this topic, but it is something I am
>> interested in, as a way to understand the changes
>> in Smalltalk related communities in the last decade
>> and the points of interest promoted by referents today.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Ale.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "stephane ducasse" <
>> stephane.ducasse at free.fr>
>> To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" <
>> squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 10:46 AM
>> Subject: Re: [squeak-dev] Apology for offensive spam on annoncements list
>>
>>
>>  Hi ken
>>>
>>> It was clear that was not a Squeaker that wrote this shit.
>>> Don't worry.
>>>
>>> Stef
>>>
>>> On Jan 25, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Ken Causey wrote:
>>>
>>>  I apologize for this coming through on the announcements mailing list.
>>>> I hope everyone realizes that I did not send this.  Several copies  were
>>>> received purportedly 'from' various community members.  With the
>>>> announcements list I have had a policy of moderating all messages,  even
>>>> those from subscribers.  But in the last year or so I had begun to
>>>> relaxen this somewhat by whitelisting anyone who sent messages
>>>> regularly, this included myself.  Clearly this was a mistake and I  will
>>>> now remove myself and everyone else from the whitelist and I will have
>>>> to go back to moderating every single message.
>>>>
>>>> Again, my apologies,
>>>>
>>>> Ken Causey
>>>>
>>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>>> From: Lawrence Auster <ken at kencausey.com>
>>>> Reply-To: ken at kencausey.com
>>>> To: announcements at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>>> Subject: [Squeak Announcements] Obama -- The Judas Goat
>>>> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:52:47 +0100
>>>>
>>>> Obama -- The Judas Goat
>>>> 1/25/2009
>>>> By David Duke
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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