Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 22:16:54 -0700 From: Travis Cole <tcole@wcug.wwu.edu> To: Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC Message-ID: <20000501221654.A20589@wcug.wwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000501183644.A75942@lunatic.oneinsane.net>; from insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 06:36:44PM -0700 References: <20000501183644.A75942@lunatic.oneinsane.net>
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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. :( On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 06:36:44PM -0700, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: > Just wanna share a little incident that happened today. > > <dawn flame suit> > > My normal routine is to hang out on IRC and gleen information from the > ones that what to give it on #FreeBSD and to share what I can to give it > back. > > Today started out like any other day. people asked how to get there > mouse to work while in thier console, some other guy asked how can he > get his shell to work when he presses the up arrow key to get the > previous command, etc. The two items were fielded by the channel in a > helpful manner with a lot of poking about rtfm and using man pages. > > (This is one of the reasons why I enjoy the FreeBSD community) > > <check flame suit> > > After awhile the channel got a little busier. A guy greeted and asked if > anyone had heard if such and such a hardware was supported. One of the > operators asked if he had checked the website. the gentlemen responded > with a yes and that he also checked the /usr/src/sys/conf/i386/LINT file > as well. The operator responded with a smart-ass remark and some > vulgarity. and then banned the gentlemen. > > Now I know IRC is not an official place to get help for FreeBSD. But it > going thru its moments where people are helpful and not. But the thing > is it is easy to get to and it has some interaction in semi-real time. > It is a public forum just as much as HTTP and NNTP. With that in mind > there could be a little hint of advocacy in the channel instead of some > people with arrogance and the power of the '@'. > > Just something to think about. > > </dawn flame suit> > > Back to IRC I go entering #FreeBSD > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... > The InSaNe One rm -rf * > insane@oneinsane.net and all was /dev/null and *void() > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > (Ducking the spray of saliva as you raspberry the screen) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- --Travis "Linux is something for Windows haters, BSD is something for Unix lovers" (Heike S., Febr. 98) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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