From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 13 02:37:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D8D11065672 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:37:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: from smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AB85F8FC18 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:37:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 84022 invoked from network); 13 Dec 2008 02:10:40 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=11J802p7AkrAQXCaqeD2e6KwBWV6LiEB5Hstlmns8zcWe9PxGF3XaJoL8eV3p7MCBHjTVJT/JXPowFBCe0FMv155iNUrCjSohxpEF73RPFghSRaTPk05egKBODFPTWm2oLh0nDxcJ4Q3W9XVO9uDQp4jL3sfbtHMj18O46g+17M= ; Received: from unknown (HELO napoleon.local) (mike.jeays@99.224.75.182 with login) by smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Dec 2008 02:10:40 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: JMCpp0wVM1ns4MX6mo8PA9oSYRCX0grlwoH66b1QvHdlRrHwfSQ36uu8iwgumtWA3A-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Mike Jeays To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:10:39 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20081207193517.GA20905@laverenz.de> <20081213002037.F5665@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <877i64c3zt.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <877i64c3zt.fsf@kobe.laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812122110.39991.mike.jeays@rogers.com> Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:37:23 -0000 On December 12, 2008 07:28:54 pm Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:22:15 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> There is _nothing_ that is inherently "server oriented" about the main > >> FreeBSD tree, and it hasn't "split" to anything of the sort. > > > > exactly! FreeBSD is unix oriented! > > > > everything else depends on what you install. > > > > that's why it would be good to finally introduce moderation on that > > list > > That's a logical leap I am not comfortable with. > > Back when I posted my first question here, some time during the summer > of 1999, it seemed very nice that older FreeBSD users replied to my > questions without chastising me for being "off topic". It seems natural > to return the favor now, and reply to *all* questions that I can help > with; even if their relation to FreeBSD is very 'weak'. > > The spirit of replying to all questions, even if they are similar to > ``How do I process images with a Photoshop-like program on FreeBSD?'', > or even ``Windows lets me use FOO and do BAR. Is there something like > this in FreeBSD?'', seems to be one of the *good* aspects of this list. > > Why should we destroy that good aspect by introducing moderation? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Agreed. The noise level on this list is quite low, and off-topic threads get discouraged after a few iterations. I would NOT be in favour of moderation - I like it the way it is. -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca