Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 12:20:28 -0700 From: Travis Cole <tcole@wcug.wwu.edu> To: Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com> Cc: Sean Kelly <smkelly@slashnet.org>, John Papalia <john@jpepconsulting.com>, Ron Rosson <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC Message-ID: <20000502122028.A12847@wcug.wwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <002901bfb44b$658c3ea0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com>; from jgowdy@home.com on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 08:30:48AM -0700 References: <20000501183644.A75942@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <000901bfb3f8$c6d6f220$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> <20000502005033.A68966@edgemaster.zombie.org> <4.3.1.2.20000502103522.00ab5320@mail.udel.edu> <002901bfb44b$658c3ea0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 08:30:48AM -0700, Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > Half the time the topic in the channel is "THIS IS NOT A HELP CHANNEL. TRY > #FREEBSDHELP". And yet people will still ask their question and get banned. > It's just kinda like natural selection. If you can take the time to learn > what's what before you go in busting out questions, you're not going to get > banned. And the bans aren't even perm anyway, so what's everyone crying > about ? So what is acceptable conversation on #FreeBSD? > > The point is, people aren't going to bow down and change the rules because > some dorks asking a question in the wrong place are getting a little > disgruntled. That's the whole idea. Maybe if they get a little pissed off > they'll pull their heads out of their asses and try to figure out WHY they > got banned, and what's the proper way to go about getting some help. If > they refuse to learn, and simply go to one of the email lists acting all > Promethian, beating their breast over how they were wronged, then they will > continue to float in the river of ignorance. -- --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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000502122028.A12847>