Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:32:59 -0600 From: seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge? Message-ID: <200101191733.f0JHX4n18396@guild.plethora.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:28:54 MST." <4.3.2.7.2.20010119101922.0485c720@localhost>
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In message <4.3.2.7.2.20010119101922.0485c720@localhost>, Brett Glass writes: >I'm terribly sorry if you find it "annoying and tedious" that I will >not sit idly by while others attack me. I think it's my right to respond. Sure, but the way you do it will, of course, affect peoples' intentions. >Another common element of the piling-on and shunning that occurs >frequently here: a dramatic declration that the attacker is adding the >person being attacked to his kill file (and an implicit request to others >to do likewise). I see no implicit request here. I am also unsure what this "piling-on" and "shunning" is. I haven't seen any. >Funny: looking back at this thread, it looks more as if you and a few others >have been generating noise about me. When I entered the conversation, I >merely agreed with a previous poster that the FreeBSD community had problems >with hazing and shunning. It's ironic that the exchange has become >self-referential. Add me to your kill file (which, of course, you're free >to do), and you'll prove that you're part of the same phenomenon. Not necessarily; there could be other, independant, reasons to killfile you. (For instance, I might killfile you for drawing a conclusion which does not follow from the premises. ;-)) I admit, I'm mostly on the Net side, not the Free side, but I haven't seen a whole lot of "shunning" or "hazing", and indeed, I'm not sure I've ever seen anything that I'd qualify as either. I showed up out of the blue, I asked a couple of questions on a FreeBSD list, and I got useful, informative, answers that directed me to an effective solution to my problem. I see no hazing here. -s To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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