From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 1 18:47:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D980337BF16 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 18:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.60] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id oa884534 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 21:47:04 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA60911; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 21:47:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: Doug Barton Subject: Re: proposal: weekly posting about FreeBSD Diary Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 21:37:47 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Dan Langille , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0003012147010F.00719@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes Doug, it was a silly question and was meant to be so (I'll have to go back and re-read that stuff about unix users and humor). It was not meant as a flame, I'm sorry you took it that way. Don't care for them myself. I promise not to try kidding around with you in the future. I could go on for a few more paragraphs, pro and con, but since the issue has been resolved to your satisfaction I won't. On Wed, 01 Mar 2000, in the realization he has detected a potential jerk, Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Walter Brameld wrote: > > > I had no idea that being subscribed to this list was a requirement for > > supporting FreeBSD. ONe could conceive of the situation where a person > > helping to develop alternate support may not have the time to plow > > through 100-200 e-mails a day. > > > > Doug, do you think he should be subscribed to ALL of them, or would > > just this one be sufficient? > > Obviously your response is an attempt at a flame, which I would > usually not dignify with my attention, but since you accidentally raised a > valid point that I think is worth clarification, I will. Actually, almost > none of the FreeBSD committers read -questions on any kind of a regular > basis, so the answer to your first silly assertion is, "No, it's not > necessary to be subscribed to any mailing lists to support the FreeBSD > project." But that's not what we're talking about. Dan wants to post what > amounts to an advertisement for his commercial web site to the > freebsd-questions list. Now I understand that his site has lots of stuff > on it that may be of benefit to the freebsd community. But it's also a > commercial venture. And in _my_ mind that makes it a different ball of > wax. Maybe it doesn't to yours, and if so that's ok. Dan asked for > opinions, I gave mine. > > The answer to your second silly question is that in my mind one > should be subscribed to lists that one posts regularly to. Otherwise you > might miss important issues that rise out of or are directly relevant to > your posting(s). But then again, I'm a crochity old fart who still > remembers the good old days when people gave thought to what they wrote, > used standard formats for their e-mail, blah blah. > > Now all that being said, please don't get the impression that I > think Dan is doing anything wrong. I may or may not like what he does, I > may or may not like how he does it, but I don't think he's done anything > wrong. My one reservation was that I felt that if he's going to be posting > regularly to a public list he ought to be subscribed to it ("and reading > it" ought to have gone without saying...). Dan addressed that issue, so my > objection is withdrawn. Assuming that Dan was sincere in his request for > feedback, I don't see a problem with me providing some. If you do, tough > bananas. > > Further attempts to draw this discussion into the absurd will be > ignored. > > Have a nice day, > > Doug > -- > "Welcome to the desert of the real." > > - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" The bananas were good. Had 'em with my Corn Flakes. Taking a rain-check on the nice day, going to bed now. -- Walter Brameld in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message