From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 04:06:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B3216A403 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:06:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3159943C9F for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:05:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from [66.47.111.183] (helo=joeandlane.com) by elasmtp-spurfowl.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GuLO8-0000ME-Su for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:06:37 -0500 Received: from joeandlane.com (localhost.localnet.local [127.0.0.1]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kBD49EOp003471 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:09:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id kBD49Dw6003470 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:09:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) X-Authentication-Warning: joeandlane.com: lholcombe set sender to lane@joeandlane.com using -f From: Lane To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:09:13 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <6.2.3.4.2.20061212153306.0321bc30@mailsvr.xxiii.com> <000801c71e50$93fc9750$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> <20061213020139.GD34082@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20061213020139.GD34082@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200612122209.13867.lane@joeandlane.com> X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-From: lane@joeandlane.com X-ELNK-Trace: e56a4b6ca9bdfda11aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79e00f78f87d214364f6b128eaf0efba49350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 66.47.111.183 Subject: Re: List Protocol (was: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:06:38 -0000 On Tuesday 12 December 2006 20:01, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 12 December 2006 at 16:49:39 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Until then STFU you ungrateful bastards. All you once were dumb > > newbies who didn't know FreeBSD from free beer, and I'll bet more > > than a few of you sent e-mail to questions, thinking it was an > > actual person who gave a damn. Boy were you surprised! > > Ted, there are other aspects of the list protocol. One has to do with > message format. You seem to have great difficulty with this one, > requiring other people to manually reformat, and often to guess what > you're talking about. > > Another has to do with politeness. You seem to abuse this one again > and again; it's one of the reasons why I seldom read this mailing list > any more. You've probably driven off a number of people who would be > able to give *helpful* answers. Please stop. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. Not that Ted needs any defense, but ... He's also made a few of us pay attention and pitch in. God love him! Now where is the girl in the tank top? lane