From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 25 14: 9:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kramer.thekramers.net (dsl092-068-235.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.68.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9335D37B400 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:09:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (david@localhost) by kramer.thekramers.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g5PL95229490 for ; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 17:09:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 17:09:05 -0400 (EDT) From: David Kramer To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: I hate to bring it up again (spamming) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, ro0t wrote: > Well like i said, i thought at first it was someone being a real idiot. > Which i have no sympathy for. Then the last guy who emailed us enlightened > me and made me think further of how he could be the victim also. It makes > much sense. Im not attacking anyone. I just was upset because everything > that is a good thing nowadays seems to get ruined by a ten year old with too > much time on his hands. Anyhow im done discussing this its bull*hit. Anybody > need help on _FreeBSD_ =] And i apologize for jumping the gun, without fully > thinking out the situation. A coupla things. -You posted easily six or so messages today complaining about the guy. How is that helping your fellow FreeBSD user? -It looks to me like you are taking messages that people have sent you in private (based on the header and the lack of the original post showing up on the list) and responding on the list, complete with the private mail contents. This is a blatant netiquette violation. If someone sent you something in private, it should stay that way. -"Never attribute to malice that which can more easily be attributed to incompetence" (unknown). Edwin Renders is clearly a newbie at best, and a luser at worst. Either way, he probably doesn't check his mail more than a few times a week. He could be sipping pina coladas by the poolside ignorant that all this is happening because he's got cablemodem or DSL access, and his machine is always connected whether he's there or not. -Even if he was doing it on purpose, responding to someone like that just makes them do it more. As a side comment, even without Edwin, I've never been on a technical list that got so much spam. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DDDD David Kramer http://thekramers.net DK KD DKK D "I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and DK KD in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks." DDDD -Joe E. Lewis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message