From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 24 21:16:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEAA037B417 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 21:16:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16fDUm-000BuJ-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 05:16:16 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id C81B313040 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 06:16:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 7A8DF22593; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 06:16:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 06:16:15 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: confussed Message-ID: <20020225051615.GA2875@raggedclown.net> References: <00c101c1bd4f$d91b5e00$0100a8c0@g4x9a2> <20020225012036.A80593@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020225012036.A80593@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:20:37AM +0000, George Reid wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 12:56:22PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > > You surely didn't expect us to find that funny, did you? > > > > A better question (with better grammar, at least) is: > > > > Why do you want to waste our time with such trite and useless juvenilia? > > > > You should find something better to do with your time and ours, like > > seeking an answer to my question. > > Please keep your random "I've had a bad day" streams of vitriol off the > list. > > This is a questions list. That means that people will ask questions. If > you don't want to answer them, don't post anything. > I agree. The poster simply needed an explanation of what free means in this context; and that buying the set from a shop is a) a convenience measure and b) contributes towards funding FreeBSD. He/She can also be pointed at the other methods of obtaining FreeBSD (which also inevitably involve some expense, even if it is the cost of a CD). And the attack on poor grammar is cacky. If the list were moderated on the correctness of the english used then it would be a *very* low-volume list and many of the people whose posts were moderated-out could well turn out to be native english speakers. I speak as one who has occasionally let off a "bad-day stream of vitriol", and have always regretted it. I am now a reformed character :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message