From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 23 11:48:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02188 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:48:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA02183 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:48:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04993; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:48:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <353F8CFE.1070E9BE@san.rr.com> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:48:30 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0420 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" CC: patl@phoenix.volant.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is xtend in the base system? References: <1144.893355077@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > No, someone (perhaps you) posted an argument similar to the one you are > > putting forward here in a previous post. That does not equal "settled" > > in my book, as far as I'm concerned it's just another data point. > > The law of diminishing returns, however, would strongly suggest that > it's time to kill this thread. If you're interested in making moral > stands, make them elsewhere. Practically speaking, this issue is NOT > worth the debate it has generated, whether there's an "entrenched > status quo" or not. Let's not forget common sense in our choice of > "causes", people! My cause isn't xtend. That's just today's example. Yesterday's example was qcam, tomorrow the example will be different. My cause is to break through some of the lethargy and status quo'ism, and if I keep showing that the emperor has no clothes long enough, maybe someday a change will actually be made. I will however accede to your request to desist regarding xtend since I think you've made my point sufficiently well. Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message