Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 00:34:29 -0500 (CDT) From: "Lee Crites (AEI)" <leec@adam.adonai.net> To: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to be rude, miss the point and feel good about it Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971003002624.28612B-100000@adam.adonai.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971002174126.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Simon Shapiro wrote: =>Few days ago, I finally fot the code and documentation to a somewhat =>presentable manner and decided in my eternal stupidity and ignorance of =>good manners to create a little mailing list and subscribe to it those who =>replied with interest. Thanks for the warning. I had thought of doing something sort of similar. There are a few individuals who I have discussed some things with at length, and thought of just tossing a quick majordomo list together with the several of us to make it easier. =>If I thought for a moment that this is representative of our little =>community, I would have thought long and hard about being part of it. I have noticed that while a great majority of the individuals on the FreeBSD lists are *very* nice and helpful, there are a few who can be counted on to regurgitate the kind of malignant sludge you received. =>If I offended any of you by following up on something YOU expressed written =>interest in, or if I mistook your interests and intent, I formally and =>publicly apologize. It would be interesting to forward the original message back to it (the sender) so it could see why you thought it was interested in the first place. Perhaps *it* might learn a lesson in netiquite, which just might save *lots* of people from that kind of grief. I have noticed that small minds have small vocabularies. Which, I think, is why we see that particular *F* word used in so many ways -- when you don't have a large vocabulary, you are stuck using the few words you do know, sometimes in ways which have no real meaning. Lee
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