From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 21 11:34:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFE8A37B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:34:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from host217-41-33-159.in-addr.btopenworld.com (host217-41-33-159.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.41.33.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F23A43E3B for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:34:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dom@host217-41-33-159.in-addr.btopenworld.com) Received: by host217-41-33-159.in-addr.btopenworld.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EEDF93F8; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:37:06 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:37:05 +0100 From: Dominic Marks To: Paul Everlund Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hackers or whackers? Message-ID: <20020821183705.GA88718@gallium> References: <3D63DA8F.10DE8D0B@cs.umu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D63DA8F.10DE8D0B@cs.umu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey, On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 08:23:11PM +0200, Paul Everlund wrote: > Hi all! > > Have I signed up for the correct list? I was hoping to learn > some creative FreeBSD specific programming on this list, so > that I maybe one day could contribute to the project, but so > far I feel like I'm not on a hackers list. :-) Other than programming questions there is a quantity of project politics talk which goes on, most people (I believe) accept this as an unfortunate but inevitable side-effect of success. > Is it usually like this, you people who have been here some > time, or I just joined at a bad timing? This is a low point in the history of this mailing list, of the 12 / 18 months that I've been subscribed. The recent trolls are the "work" of one individual. One person is easy enough to ignore (please join me in ignoring them :-)). > Take care all! > > Best regards, > Paul > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Dominic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message