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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Cc: Gary Gatten <Ggatten@waddell.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: What is this forum for?
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:54:53PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote:

> On Thu, 28 May 2009 14:52:05 -0500
> "Gary Gatten" <Ggatten@waddell.com> 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?
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Stop whining.
> 
> This list has been around of a LOOOONG time.  The rules haven't changed
> in the 10 years since I've been subscribed, and the list works 99% of the
> time.
> 
> The few days a month where the discussion goes off-topic and turns into a
> flame war _are_ annoying, but not significantly distracting in the grand
> scheme of things.

You got it.
A voice from experience.
This has also been my experience for the last about a dozen 
years I have been on.   Geez, has it been that long.  I'm getting
old -- or is that OT...  :-P

////jerry

> 
> -Bill
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