From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 19 06:01:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1631916A4CE for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 06:01:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-relay.tamu.edu (smtp-relay.tamu.edu [165.91.143.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9852243D66 for ; Thu, 19 May 2005 06:01:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tyler@tamu.edu) Received: from [165.91.46.15] (tamulink-0015.vpn.tamu.edu [165.91.46.15]) by smtp-relay.tamu.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4J5x5tJ002157; Thu, 19 May 2005 01:01:06 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: <20050519001737.518e40c5@dolphin.local.net> References: <20050516203932.0A38316A4D0@hub.freebsd.org> <20050519001737.518e40c5@dolphin.local.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <6096B5C3-B035-478D-B0E7-2B94F447718C@tamu.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "R. Tyler Ballance" Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 00:59:34 -0500 To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alright you primitive screwheads, LISTEN UP!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 06:01:19 -0000 Uh oh Bill, it looks like you may be in store for some trouble, sounds like the Postal Service may have it in for you ;) Anyways, I usually refer to people of *BSD projects their commit bits, is it ok if I refer to you as wpaul@ (i've been know to refer to "phk" for Poul Henning Kamp (phk@) in conversation, and mlaier@ instead of Max Laier on the pf side of things ;)) Thanks for the evil work regardless, and watch your mail carefully for a while :-P Cheers, -R. Tyler Ballance > Well, that's what you get for having a name that's made up of two > first > names. :-) > > Seriously, where I work (the U.S. Postal Service), people with names > like yours cause no end of confusion and grief, particularly when it > comes to the forwarding of mail, as our oh-so-cleverly designed (read: > brain-damaged) Central Forwarding System (CFS) uses the first four > letters of the last name, along with the last three digits of the old > address (leading zero-padded, if need be), to distinguish one > forwarding > order from another. And then you have magazine and newspaper > publishers, as well as other correspondents, who choose to invert the > order of names, for reasons known only to them and their Higher Power, > if they have one. You can just imagine the uproarious, madcap fun > that > ensues. > > Sorry, but I've no sympathy at all. Bloody double first-namers. > You'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. :-) > > -- > Conrad J. Sabatier -- "In Unix veritas" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >