From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 18 22:12:25 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC1F16A417 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:12:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D99B213C45D for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:12:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ItsLg-0005QK-12 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:10:40 +0000 Received: from esperance.zetnet.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with SMTP id lAIMAd1s027951 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:10:39 GMT Received: (qmail 67790 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Nov 2007 22:10:34 -0000 From: "Frank Shute" Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:10:34 +0000 To: "Jason C. Wells" Message-ID: <20071118221034.GA67663@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <20071118094151.18686d89@makeworld.com> <20071118163456.GA66732@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <20071118104257.111337de@makeworld.com> <20071118182243.GA67192@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <47408D5F.7040806@highperformance.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47408D5F.7040806@highperformance.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE i386 X-Organisation: 'Esperance Linux' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:10:39 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Website X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:12:25 -0000 On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 11:07:11AM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > Frank Shute wrote: > >On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:42:57AM -0600, Chris wrote: > > > ** pissing contest snipped ** > > One of the questions I like to ask myself before I post to the list is, > "Will my reply add value to the individual poster or the community at > large?" FYI your reply didn't add any value. So I guess you shouldn't have posted it. My problem is with the original non-question and the frequency that stupid non-questions/questions appear on this list. If people ask stupid questions, it's about time people got picked up for it; or this list will deteriorate into questions that can be looked up in the handbook, faq or archive. I *expect* as a courtesy to the other people on this list that any poster who has a question has done his homework before posting. Too frequently that is not the case. In which case, IMO, they're just being rude and wasting other people's time quite apart from bandwidth. When they do that (and compound their original sin) they deserve every bit of abuse & scorn poured upon them. > It's a great question to consider before sending. The purpose > behind the open source movement is to contribute value to one another. No lectures on what the OS movement is or isn't thanks. I added "value", the original poster added fuck all apart from sarcasm. I simply took a large stick to the ratbag for doing so. How about answering the original question? I think it went something like this: "There's a website broken." Well, Jason, how about answering? Or are you more interested in getting on your high horse than casting light about this mysterious broken website? FWIW, http://www.freebsd.org/ works for me. -- Frank Contact info: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/contact.html