Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 14:14:49 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com> Cc: Alec Kloss <alec@d2si.com>, pantzer@ludd.luth.se, dean@oec.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTP site Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970208140831.2067A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <v02130509af229cd5ffae@[198.3.138.121]>
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On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Dean Anderson wrote: > At 4:10 PM 2/7/97, Snob Art Genre wrote: > >On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Alec Kloss wrote: > > > >> > >> Well, what bit you this morning? I agree that the FreeBSD > >> ftp site departs from traditional ftp sites in a few ways. > >> However, this does not make it "broken", just different. > > > >Really . . . you'd think he was paying for it or something. Not to > >mention -- how many of us have, on our own time, read this guy's email and > >taken the time to respond helpfully? If he doesn't like the freebsd ftp > >site perhaps he just shouldn't use it. > > I wouldn't use it if you weren't falsely advertising to have software you > don't have. That's what "bit" me. On the FTP site is everything one needs to begin a make of the software involved, and from there the rest is taken care of. It's pretty clearly a FreeBSD directory, and the ports work with FreeBSD. > Don't you think you are a bit unethical to claim to have a package you > don't really have? Unethical? That makes it sound as if someone is benefitting. And, as I said, everything necessary is there. I think you should rethink your attitude towards free sites -- had I put the amount of work into this site that the maintainers had, and taken as many pains as they have to make it user-friendly and intuitive, I would very much resent people like you coming in and criticizing. Who exactly do you think you are that FTP sites should conform exactly to your mistaken idea of what they should be? What's broken here isn't the site, it's your manners. > --Dean > > Dean Anderson dean@aV8.com | dean@lpf.org > We make technology fly! See us for | Stop Software Patents before they > Networking, Firewalls, WWW and more. | stop you! Contact me for more info > Check out http://www.av8.com for info | or send mail to lpf@lpf.org > President | President > Plain Aviation,Inc | League for Programming Freedom > > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."
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