From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 5 20:55:39 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 5 20:55:37 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDA1C37B400 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 2000 20:55:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=buffy.raggedclown) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 143Wc1-0009ZR-00; Wed, 06 Dec 2000 04:55:26 +0000 Received: (from cliff@localhost) by buffy.raggedclown (8.10.2/8.10.2) id eB64ocO01491; Wed, 6 Dec 2000 05:50:38 +0100 Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 05:50:38 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Doug Barton Cc: Robert Kosinski , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -questions decorum Message-ID: <20001206055038.A1434@buffy.local> References: <3A282E91@operamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from DougB@gorean.org on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:53:04PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:53:04PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Robert Kosinski wrote: > > > My, what a troll you are. I'm surprised you even got Linux to run if you > > can't > > make boot disks. And what is this "running FreeBSD in NT" crap? FreeBSD is > > an > > operating system, you idiot, not an NT program. > > No matter how annoying the person, how much of a troll their > e-mail was, etc., etc.; you do the project more harm than good with a > response like this. If you cannot possibly answer and e-mail without > calling the person names, simply don't answer it. > > Thanks, > > Doug I entirely agree with Doug. If I was a newbie here this kind of response would scare me off from this group for good, to the consequent detriment of the reputation of FreebSD, and one person who may just decide it is something only for experts. I am not a newbie to UNIX, but am relatively new to FreeBSD, so I am not about to tell people how to behave here. But before you shoot off insults at people (total strangers btw) think how would feel to receive such an email or public posting. My 0,2 (Dutch) cents worth Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message