From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 04:17:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94C5116A4DE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 04:17:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E0FF43D53 for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 04:17:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.4) with SMTP id PAA04107; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:17:01 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:17:01 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050212025510.92E0F16A4CF@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Jerry McAllister Subject: Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such as X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 04:17:08 -0000 On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org wrote: > Message: 23 > Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:55:06 -0500 (EST) > From: Jerry McAllister [..] > Well, I hope I am helpful, at least some of the time. It seems > to run about 50-50 that I am near the topic and am way out of touch. You're being way too modest, Jerry. > But, on this, the comment is not because of the specific opinion, but > rather the tenor of the posts which seem to have begun drifting in the > direction of having the look and feel of some from a recent very thoroughly > unpopular but active troll. At least TM*@AOL mostly trolled about pseudo-technical issues, not all this quasi-legalistic and corporate-cater crap. Even Ted M got sucked in, starting his next book in here, in the off-topic-before-last .. > The objectionable sign is the tendancy to not just post an opinion and > let others have theirs, but to repeatedly pound on the same thread, often > drifting far from the thread, with successive posts escalating the > virulence of the rhetoric until there is no semblence of exchange left, > just a bunch of who can shout the loudest. Yep. > In a posting storm from only a few days ago, it was noted that this > goes beyond even the typical troll, and may need some other creature > to characterize the identity - maybe a cockatrice or something. I only catch up on -questions as a digest, every now and again when I've the time and/or want to find out something and/or am interested in some discussions. Lately it's been just chocfull of this sort of bs, which is most distracting. This is usually an excellent technical list, but lately only in amongst all this massively off-topic stuff, which is sad. > Anyway, in the way of the old folk story, it looks like, feels like, > smells like, tastes like - sure glad I didn't step in it. I like the mascot too, and couldn't care less about logos. I also like the clean, functional, fast website, and would hate to see it cluttered up and slowed down by corporatised flashy crap to suit the suits Anthony hopes to impress. And, to polish it off, I just love FreeBSD on my lil' laptop as well as on several servers. Currently 8 Netscape windows, 11 Kwrite, 6 Konsoles in 160MB, uptime 6.5 days, last reboot 30 Jan .. and that's an ancient FreeBSD 4.5, KDE 2.2.2 .. no good on the desktop, eh? This will be my one and only 'contribution' to painting this bikeshed. Cheers, Ian