From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 23 9:17: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hostigos.otherwhen.com (mavery-gw.pernet.net [205.229.2.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E50914DB2 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:16:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mavery@mail.otherwhen.com) Received: from mail.otherwhen.com (mail.2.229.205.in-addr.arpa [205.229.2.19] (may be forged)) by hostigos.otherwhen.com (8.8.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA26271 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:21:15 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199906231621.LAA26271@hostigos.otherwhen.com> Received: from PORKY/SpoolDir by mail.otherwhen.com (Mercury 1.45); 23 Jun 99 11:17:00 -0600 Received: from SpoolDir by PORKY (Mercury 1.45); 23 Jun 99 11:16:32 -0600 From: "Mike Avery" To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:16:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: PR broken? was Re: Linux not FreeBSD? Reply-To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com References: Brett Glass's message of "Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:06:00 -0600" In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.10) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 23 Jun 99, at 16:19, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > I keep getting spam from this guy through the freebsd-chat list. > Perhaps you should add him to hub's spam filter? > Brett Glass writes: > > FreeBSD's PR is known to be very broken indeed. Sorry, but it's not clear to me how, "I don't like this guy or what he has to say" makes his comments spam. When someone is very attached to a viewpoint, it's easy to become irrational on the topic. But still, sometimes it's worth looking around to do a reality check. IS the emperor wearing clothes? And is the kid who says he's naked an enemy of the state? The kid is either right or wrong... and it's hard to say he's an enemy of the state unless he's wrong, and his comments somehow harm the emperor. Brett's comment was not the first on the topic. His comment was logical and explained the evidence that someone else had presented, and that others had commented upon. Labelling Brett's comments SPAM, and silencing Brett will remove his voice.... but doing that will have no effect on the reality of whether or not the emperor is wearing clothes. And sooner or later winter will arrive, and if the emperor is truly naked, he'll freeze his nuts off. Mike ====================================================================== Mike Avery MAvery@mail.otherwhen.com (409)-842-2942 (work) ICQ: 16241692 * Spam is for lusers who can't get business any other way * Recently Seen On A Bumper Sticker Near Your Home: Your kid may be an honor student but you're still an IDIOT! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message