From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 13 17:43:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA12657 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 17:43:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA12644 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 17:43:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA23332; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:43:52 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA11955; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:43:50 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:43:50 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199711140143.SAA11955@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Nate Williams , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium lockup fix in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <5164.879471681@time.cdrom.com> References: <199711140130.SAA11853@rocky.mt.sri.com> <5164.879471681@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Some of us don't have time for newsgroups, especially consider the > > signal/noise ratio nowadays is about nil. Send it to announce if you > > want us all to read it. > > In any case, I'd be appreciative if people who have enough time to > react to Sean's version of events could also take the time to learn > the actual version by reading the newsgroups. There was no mention of 'newsgroups' in Sean postings, so how were we to know that is where this discussion between Sean and you took place. The first I heard about it was your last email to me. And, if you're going to make policy decisions that affect alot of users, discussion on Usenet are *NOT* the place to make them. Nate