From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 5 11:21:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA17388 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclops.xtra.co.nz (cyclops.xtra.co.nz [202.27.184.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA17379 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 11:21:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker (210-55-210-87.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [210.55.210.87]) by cyclops.xtra.co.nz (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA05388; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 08:11:49 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <199811051911.IAA05388@cyclops.xtra.co.nz> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 08:11:59 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Please help me find linux! Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199811051423.JAA15859@emi.net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 5 Nov 98, at 10:25, Steve Friedrich wrote: > On Wed, 04 Nov 1998 23:48:10 -0800, Tony Berg wrote: > > >ok i am new at this and dont want to mess it up. > >I am using win95 now and i want to use linux instead. > >What i want to know is how to download linux to my hard drive or 3.5 > >drive what ever is easer. I also need to know where exactly to get it and > >what do i need to click on does it say linx on it ? What software will i > >need to get so i can go online with it? > > This is NOT a linux mail list. It is for FreeBSD. If it's FreeBSD > that you actually want, go to www.freebsd.org and read the > documentation. If it's linux that you want, go to www.redhat.com or > www.cdrom.com and read the documentation. > > I can't believe how many mail id's are attached to this email. I > don't know which one is you. Send your freebsd questions to > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ONLY. Steve, I believe the original message was a troll. Here's part of the headers: From: Tony Berg <-boneP@casco.net> Send reply to: 1116@FreeBSD.ORG, 7th@FreeBSD.ORG, av@FreeBSD.ORG, se@FreeBSD.ORG, albany@FreeBSD.ORG, or@FreeBSD.ORG, 97321@FreeBSD.ORG To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Please help me find linux! The poster was "Tony Berg <-boneP@casco.net>". The reply-to field was filled with other FreeBSD.org addresses. I assume this was to give those people lots of email when people responded to the message. I guess the troll figured it would generate a lot of traffic, presumably agressive. To our benefit, it did not. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message