Please, folks, stop (was: Compliance with Boost copyright and license guidelines)

From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-08-23 08:57:37

That's how we get topics of important discussion threads dissolved,
decisions not made, actions not taken.

It's annoying to be frequently spammed by such off topic digressions.

Mateusz Loskot, mateusz_at_[hidden]
(Sent from mobile, may suffer from top-posting)

On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, 01:21 Gavin Lambert via Boost, <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> On 23/08/2019 00:48, degski wrote:
> >> avoid - annoying - Windows users
> >
> > Better: ... avoid to annoy Windows users. English does have its pitfalls.
> > Thanks for pointing that out.
>
> That's not really better, since it's grammatically incorrect.
>
> You could say "avoid being an annoyance to Windows users".
>
> Or use a less ambiguous word "avoid upsetting Windows users".  (Which
> technically could still be read the wrong way, but I don't think anyone
> would read it that way.)
>
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