From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 1 23:22:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lunatic.oneinsane.net (lunatic.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7734037BAB7 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 23:22:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net) Received: by lunatic.oneinsane.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E22CD5DA4; Mon, 1 May 2000 23:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 23:22:01 -0700 From: Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC Message-ID: <20000501232201.B79190@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Reply-To: Ron Rosson References: <20000501183644.A75942@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <20000501221654.A20589@wcug.wwu.edu> <000f01bfb3f9$5db2f0e0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <000f01bfb3f9$5db2f0e0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com>; from jgowdy@home.com on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:43:38PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD lunatic.oneinsane.net 4.0-STABLE X-Moon: The Moon is Waning Crescent (5% of Full) X-Opinion: What you read here is my IMHO X-Disclaimer: I am a firm believer in RTFM X-WWW: http://www.oneinsane.net X-PGP-KEY: http://www.oneinsane.net/~insane/insane2-pgp5i.txt X-Uptime: 11:14PM up 4 days, 2:55, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 01 May 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy was heard blurting out: > > I happen to share an office at work with the guy who got flamed and > > then kick banned on #FreeBSD. > > > > Yet another reason why I don't go to #FreeBSD any more. Its often > > times distressing how people can instantly turn against you there. > > > > :( > > Once again, let me spell it out for you guys. #freebsdhelp > Did you get that number ? Lemme share it again. #freebsdhelp. Just > because people are in a freebsd chat channel does not mean they should have > to endure massive amounts of repetitive questions. That's why there's a > help channel. Get a clue or stop complaining. There's also > www.defcon1.org, www.freebsd-howto.org, and www.freebsd.org/handbook > There's plenty of help out there without abusing the knowlegable people on > IRC, who want to come on IRC and talk to other knowlegable people without > being plagued by beginners. Those who CHOOSE to share their knowlege and > information with people are in #freebsdhelp. Let me spell it out to you. I have nothing against #freebsdhelp or anyone for that matter on #freebsd. The issue I was trying to make is that it is a public forum and that by it being that can tur a newbie off quicker than anything. Shoot look in at this thread that I started, some people have answered politely and civil where others haven't. For christ sakes this will be in the search database and probably propagated to other search engines. I guess what I am getting it is there is a civil way and the wrong way. I want people to come to FreeBSD from those other OS's but not be turned away because someone wants to be a smart ass to someone who was misinformed or just plain new. Now back to #FreeBSD I go ;-) -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was /dev/null and *void() ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks to MS Word, viruses are more portable than ever! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message