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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>

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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) 


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