Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 13:40:51 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: Lanny Baron <purebeef@shaw.wave.ca>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My verdict on 2.2.7... Message-ID: <19980724134051.A9997@zappo> In-Reply-To: <19980724105653.E8063@enteract.com>; from dannyman on Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 10:56:53AM -0500 References: <199807231953.MAA00678@dingo.cdrom.com> <35B81F0C.C4DC29B6@shaw.wave.ca> <19980724105653.E8063@enteract.com>
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On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 10:56:53AM -0500, dannyman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 01:43:40AM -0400, Lanny Baron wrote: > [...] > > I must reply to this. Do you have any idea how many times i have > > complained only to find it was my own fault. How can one say that a > > version of a greater value or number is less than its predecessor? I > > invite you to my condo to fix my pc and make all work. Don't mean to > > badger you, but with the ppl at the helm of FreeBSD, I know that > > compedence is a forfront. [...] > You are acting like a petulant, ungrateful child. Please either act Um, Danny, I think that Lanny was actually paying us quite a high compliment. :) To the original poster (Lanny): Thanks. Admittedly, one of the big industry secrets is that we make people believe a problem is their own fault when really, the dirty secret is that it is ours. ;-) Sometimes just reporting which things are difficult to use or make work is useful, even if it is not a bug. OTOH, sometimes you are right and the problem is not that we don't know somethings wrong, but that we're too busy reading complaints to fix it... My rule of thumb is: "If it seems to obvious, it's probably not broken." :) However, all of us have at sometime or another (probably a lot more often than that) cursed something that we thought was a bug only to find-out later it was our fault. Of course, there is an awfully fine line between doing something wrong vs. not using a correct work-around... :) > Touching on the issue of competence, I also appeal to you to install > and learn to use a copy of ispell. I kinda liked it. :) -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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