From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 28 20:21:34 2009 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 7CE911065674 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 20:21:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-19.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-19.bluehost.com [69.89.20.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FBF88FC17 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 20:21:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 11185 invoked by uid 0); 28 May 2009 20:21:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by outboundproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 28 May 2009 20:21:34 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=WGM8Boywbr3YKS7CB9cX+B+Vk6ljam2rJRHRLxsI9k0IsG1f28yCfmBe+mccY+pyCPWhAOfU1DEsuSJsaACsOY26d6PynWjoTXa2dpWo81Yd9HTXp7XKi6VaJfniXNqM; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kokopelli.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M9m6W-00053w-Qg for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 14:21:33 -0600 Received: by kokopelli.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 28 May 2009 14:16:28 -0600 Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 14:16:28 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090528201627.GA40874@kokopelli.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793EDE2@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793EDE2@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: What is this forum for? 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: Thu, 28 May 2009 20:21:34 -0000 --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 02:52:05PM -0500, Gary Gatten wrote: > Is this forum intended to ask "specific" type questions and hope to get > specific and relevant answers? Or, is it a blog to generalize, > theorize, banter, etc. about anything and everything? >=20 > If the later - as it seems to be - I would like to chat about Russian, > Polish, etc. Women Tennis players and what they feed them over there! > Generally speaking and as a percentage of the populous - they're freakin > hot! Not to mention good players - they have like .... 50-70% of the > top 50 spots! >=20 > I know I'm new (to this forum) and don't really have a right to b!tch > about anything yet - especially since I can't contribute much to FreeBSD > / *nix as I'm not all that skilled in the internal workings thereof. > However, if some of the cr@p I've seen here lately went on in other > "support" lists I'm associated with - it would NOT be tolerated. >=20 > I like chatting / learning about all kinds of stuff, but on this forum I > expected it to be more on topic than off. For the most part I guess it > is on topic and maybe I'm just frustrated given a couple threads of > late. That said, I HOPE what has happened on other sites doesn't happen > here - all the truly gifted people that can / do actually help get tired > of the B$ and leave - and then we all suffer.... It's usually on topic. It gets off-topic more often when W. Puchar chips in, though. If you're new to this list, you may have just arrived at the wrong moment, when a W. Puchar flame war was in full swing. Please give it a little time. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] A: It reverses the normal flow of conversation. Q: What's wrong with top-posting? --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkoe8RsACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUMZQCgtSFJ/904Ga9rkvfRlJ/Eynkm ztsAoMhqLtQO1epic3ZVox6ZTUQWI4zz =vPy/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU--