From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 21 9:37:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6330237B401 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:37:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5LGVYs22120; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:31:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B3221F5.C08946DA@iowna.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:33:57 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Clarke Cc: Daniel Grunblatt , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD ? What kind of OS is that ? References: <20010621112855.U27505-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 I want to second this. "asshole" (as you described him) is not a terminal condition, and flaming him is one way to guarantee that it perpetuates as long as possible, whereas the kind of response that he got is the only kind that might cure the "asshole"ness. Kudos to Joe, and anyone else who takes the time to give excellent answers to posts that look like flame-bait. -Bill Joe Clarke wrote: > > Well, I'd like to make everyone's FreeBSD experience (or lack of > experience) a good one. I've been using FreeBSD for 6 years now, and I > really believe in this project. If we start flaming everyone, we'll turn > into another Linux users list. > > Joe Clarke > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Daniel Grunblatt wrote: > > > Is it really usefull to answer to such an asshole? why don't you just tell > > him that freebsd sucks and he must stay as far as he can from it? -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message