Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:59:17 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), dennis@etinc.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Price of FreeBSD (was On Holy Wars...) Message-ID: <5201.861411557@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:59:08 PDT." <199704182359.QAA01802@rah.star-gate.com>
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> If this continues , then I suggest that we pass a vote and kick people out. Which would only incite an additional 4 billion more mails about how terrible/wonderful an action it was and All The Terrible Precedents Raised Therefrom and it would all very be highly emotional, you can bet on that. No. Let's not do that. That would be criminally stupid. :-) If you're overloaded with email from any of the freebsd lists then do what history has shown time and again to be the only reasonable action - unsubscribe for awhile until the dust dies down and even the most verbose blow-hards come to the slow conclusion that maybe they Really Should Just Shut Up about whatever topic the undying thread concerns, it having gotten so long as to exceed even their thresholds for human sillyness. This process generally takes no more than 2-3 weeks in the very worst cases, it being only rarely necessary for MCI and Sprint to intervene with messages to admin@freebsd.org saying "For pity's sake, STOP! Do you realize that you're single-handedly responsible for 75% of the congestion at 3 principle MAEs??!" In other words, relax. It will all blow over, just like the other 28,947 went-on-so-long-they-should-have-been-shot threads I've seen in these mailing lists over the last 3 years. :-) Jordan
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