From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 23 14:34:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28480 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:34:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ppp6460.on.bellglobal.com (ppp7265.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.249.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28472 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:34:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by ppp6460.on.bellglobal.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA00823; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:32:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ppp6460.on.bellglobal.com: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:32:40 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Nate Williams cc: ac199@james.hwcn.org, "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More breakage in -current as a result of header frobbing. In-Reply-To: <199802230537.WAA26811@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > > Well, go ahead and start and pointy-hat page. > > Public humiliation *never* does anything well. Big sticks should be > waved in private instead of public, as any management book written will > tell you. This isn't about public humillamation, this is about bragging rights. "I've only broken the tree twice!! Nyah-hahaha!! I'm twice the hacker you ever were! My llama's bigger than your llama!" It's humillamation when only one person is singled out. That's why I suggested asking for volunteers to get the page off to a good start. Of course, it must be said that it is easier to just blame the core team for not brandishing their big sticks. > (Public humiliation are large parts of why we had WWII...) _Gratuitous_ public humiliation, that is. -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message