From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 13 11:28:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from beelzebubba.sysabend.org (beelzebubba.sysabend.org [209.201.74.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC641506C for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:27:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by beelzebubba.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 7E51A41D5; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:27:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by beelzebubba.sysabend.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F5399BD1; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:27:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:27:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Glenn Chisholm Cc: chat@FREEBSD.org Subject: Re: (2) hey In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Glenn Chisholm wrote: :> So everyone is supposed to lower their standards to accomodate idiots? I :> don't think so. :> : :I think that you missed my point. My point was that when the Internet is :populated with a group of people who were involved with the standards :maintenance of high standards is easy. They are extreamly unlikely to :violate their own standards. However once there are a number of people who :have little or no idea what the actual standards are some degree of :enforcement will be required. The appropriate response is to ignore them. The internet sees non-compliance as damage, and routes around it, or ignores it. I'm not sure where enforcement came into this. Jamie Bowden -- If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message