Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 06:23:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Lynch <lynch@bsdunix.net> To: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005020622510.2816-100000@bytor.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <20000501232201.B79190@lunatic.oneinsane.net>
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these are precisely the reasons I left #freebsd months ago. too much ego, not enough advocacy. -Pat __ Pat Lynch lynch@rush.net lynch@bsdunix.net lynch@unix.sh lynch@blowfi.sh Systems Administrator Rush Networking On Mon, 1 May 2000, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: > On Mon, 01 May 2000, Jeremiah Gowdy was heard blurting out: > > > > I happen to share an office at work with the guy who got flamed and > > > then kick banned on #FreeBSD. > > > > > > Yet another reason why I don't go to #FreeBSD any more. Its often > > > times distressing how people can instantly turn against you there. > > > > > > :( > > > > Once again, let me spell it out for you guys. #freebsdhelp > > Did you get that number ? Lemme share it again. #freebsdhelp. Just > > because people are in a freebsd chat channel does not mean they should have > > to endure massive amounts of repetitive questions. That's why there's a > > help channel. Get a clue or stop complaining. There's also > > www.defcon1.org, www.freebsd-howto.org, and www.freebsd.org/handbook > > There's plenty of help out there without abusing the knowlegable people on > > IRC, who want to come on IRC and talk to other knowlegable people without > > being plagued by beginners. Those who CHOOSE to share their knowlege and > > information with people are in #freebsdhelp. > > Let me spell it out to you. I have nothing against #freebsdhelp or > anyone for that matter on #freebsd. The issue I was trying to make is > that it is a public forum and that by it being that can tur a newbie off > quicker than anything. > > Shoot look in at this thread that I started, some people have answered > politely and civil where others haven't. For christ sakes this will be > in the search database and probably propagated to other search engines. > > I guess what I am getting it is there is a civil way and the wrong way. > I want people to come to FreeBSD from those other OS's but not be turned > away because someone wants to be a smart ass to someone who was > misinformed or just plain new. > > Now back to #FreeBSD I go ;-) > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... > The InSaNe One rm -rf * > insane@oneinsane.net and all was /dev/null and *void() > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Thanks to MS Word, viruses are more portable than ever! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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