From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 19 07:30:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA22818 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 07:30:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nash.pr.mcs.net (nash.pr.mcs.net [204.95.47.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA22809 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 07:29:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@nash.pr.mcs.net) Received: (from alex@localhost) by nash.pr.mcs.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA22397; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:28:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from alex) Message-Id: <199806191428.JAA22397@nash.pr.mcs.net> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 09:28:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Nash Subject: Re: Major hardware reorganization... To: fewtch@serv.net cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980619065546.007facd0@mx.serv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 19 Jun, Tim Gerchmez wrote: > P.S... do you know of ANY experts who aren't self-proclaimed? I can't remember ever hearing any of the respected BSD people proclaim themselves to be an expert. They usually let their code and technical discussions speak for themselves. In my experience (disclaimer: I'm not suggesting this applies to you), people who are self-proclaimed experts, aren't. > Who else is > going to decide when someone's an expert at something except the person > themselves? Probably the people that are considering using the advice of a self-proclaimed expert. > Nobody else knows what's inside another person's head. The > key is, you either believe that person or you don't. Alternatively, one can come to their own conclusions. > Since you don't know > me or my level of Win95 knowledge, you shouldn't be bothered if I proclaim > myself an expert. You have no proof or evidence one way or another whether > I am or not. This is far too much excitement than needs to be generated over a statement with a smiley on it :) Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message