From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 1 18:37: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from lunatic.oneinsane.net (lunatic.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2413F37B9F7 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 18:36:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net) Received: by lunatic.oneinsane.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A2A0B5DAA; Mon, 1 May 2000 18:36:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 18:36:44 -0700 From: Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD and IRC Message-ID: <20000501183644.A75942@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Reply-To: Ron Rosson Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD lunatic.oneinsane.net 4.0-STABLE X-Moon: The Moon is Waning Crescent (6% of Full) X-Opinion: What you read here is my IMHO X-Disclaimer: I am a firm believer in RTFM X-WWW: http://www.oneinsane.net X-PGP-KEY: http://www.oneinsane.net/~insane/insane2-pgp5i.txt X-Uptime: 6:22PM up 3 days, 22:03, 2 users, load averages: 0.14, 0.04, 0.01 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just wanna share a little incident that happened today. My normal routine is to hang out on IRC and gleen information from the ones that what to give it on #FreeBSD and to share what I can to give it back. Today started out like any other day. people asked how to get there mouse to work while in thier console, some other guy asked how can he get his shell to work when he presses the up arrow key to get the previous command, etc. The two items were fielded by the channel in a helpful manner with a lot of poking about rtfm and using man pages. (This is one of the reasons why I enjoy the FreeBSD community) After awhile the channel got a little busier. A guy greeted and asked if anyone had heard if such and such a hardware was supported. One of the operators asked if he had checked the website. the gentlemen responded with a yes and that he also checked the /usr/src/sys/conf/i386/LINT file as well. The operator responded with a smart-ass remark and some vulgarity. and then banned the gentlemen. Now I know IRC is not an official place to get help for FreeBSD. But it going thru its moments where people are helpful and not. But the thing is it is easy to get to and it has some interaction in semi-real time. It is a public forum just as much as HTTP and NNTP. With that in mind there could be a little hint of advocacy in the channel instead of some people with arrogance and the power of the '@'. Just something to think about. Back to IRC I go entering #FreeBSD -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was /dev/null and *void() ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Ducking the spray of saliva as you raspberry the screen) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message