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From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
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Subject: Re: XFree86 probs? This the right place?
To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 13:57:57 -0600 (CST)
Cc: hasty@netcom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, dsherwin@cts.com,
        hackers@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <10756.793497854@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 22, 95 04:04:14 pm
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> 
> > > As Daniel Sherwin wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > If I have a problem with a newly installed SNAP BSD version and my 
> > > > X-Windows, is this the right place to ask for help, or should I direct it
>  
> > > > to a XFree list?
> > 
> > What is your problem?
> > 
> > Also questions relating to Xfree should be directed to the
> > XFree86 mailing list.
> > 
> 
> Huh?  I presume you're a good friend of Dan's or something, and this
> entirely ad-hominem attack on him has some greater significance that
> the rest of us just aren't in on?  He was gracious enough to ASK if
> the mailing list was correct and when I informed him that the XFree86
> project was the more correct place to go, he kindly thanked me and
> redirected his question accordingly.  If your response was not in jest
> than I think you owe him an apology - this kind of rudeness is neither
> tolerated nor welcome on our lists, and if you can't be nice then I
> strongly urge you to stay well out of the question-answering business,
> at least where our good name is concerned.
> 
> Thank you.
> 					Jordan
> 
I don't get it.  The first guy asks where to ask about a problem.  Garrett
asks what that problem might be?  ( I admit, it seems he assumed that there
really was a problem already.)  I think one of us misread the exchange.
If it was me, I apologize.

Boyd

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 Boyd Faulkner                                  faulkner@isd.tandem.com 
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