From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 23:12:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E69AA37B400 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:12:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 14426 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2002 08:12:19 +0100 Received: from bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se (HELO there) (62.5.36.29) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 16 Mar 2002 08:12:19 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: Server Admin Subject: Re: Be careful what you say Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 08:12:23 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020315061215.GA1693@raggedclown.net> <3.0.5.32.20020315114421.0117f1f0@mail.sage-one.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020315114421.0117f1f0@mail.sage-one.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020316071225.E69AA37B400@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 15 March 2002 6:44 pm, Server Admin wrote: > > >On 2002-03-15 07:12, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > I am writing to the list, just to say that if the risk a person runs > > when giving advice, or explaining something to someone who appears not > > to understand it, is that they will be called a Nazi then I shall not > > bother anymore. On Friday 15 March 2002 6:44 pm, Server Admin wrote: > There's one more ingredient here to consider when participating in a list. > In addition to a posting here on the list I gather you may have contacted > the fellow directly and he considered what you did to be a scolding. I > agree that he/she was out of line with such "flames", but it is probably > not as good practice to enter someone's mailbox just to lecture him/her > without considering the risk of some unwanted response. I'm going to guess > it wouldn't have happened otherwise... > Well, having been the recipient of some of Cliff's "advice" , I'm kind of surprised that some of the more sensitive souls around here haven't fired off a flame or two at him before ;-). Mark. -- Friction is a drag. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message