From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 26 12:30:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from math.uic.edu (neumann.math.uic.edu [131.193.178.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 788F237B405 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:30:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3598 invoked by uid 31415); 26 Mar 2002 20:29:57 -0000 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:29:57 -0600 From: Vladimir Egorin To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qmail (Was: Maintaining Access Control Lists ) Message-ID: <20020326142957.A3519@math.uic.edu> References: <20020323002608.B20699@rain.macguire.net> <3C9C84CF.2090300@flash.net> <20020323084327.A354@rain.macguire.net> <3C9DF87D.5050306@cream.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:12:46AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:12:46AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > I've been on IETF mailing lists with him, and his attitude is > always that he is always right (by definition) and everyone else is > always wrong (by definition). He insists on replying to each and > every mail message posted to the list, and constantly dredging up old > points that everyone else has agreed were dead a long, long, long > time ago. > > He will reply to messages that are not anywhere near remotely > related to his favourite topic, quote some random line that is least > unlike the straw-man position that he wants to destroy, and then go > off on a multi-page rant. > > He considers himself to be God's gift to programming, security, > Internet mail, DNS, cryptography, and anything else he cares to > decide to screw around with, and woe betide anyone who ever disagrees > with his world-view -- even if that world-view changes and you used > to be his most vocal supporter. > > > The problem is that he is generally totally fscking clueless (at > least on all the topics with which I am familiar), and his > whacked-out ideas of how things should be done are non-solutions to > non-problems, and he simply doesn't understand what the real problems > are. Brad, You are making a very general statement. Such statements are usually blind and unfair. I won't comment on Prof. Bernstein's abilities as a programmer or his character, but in the areas of his direct expertise (mathematics) he is very good. I am saying this as his former colleague and student. -- Vladimir To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message