From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 19 15:20:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA12375 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:20:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11811 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 15:18:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcs@znep.com) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id QAA19107; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:17:36 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA26620; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:16:21 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:16:21 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko To: jack cc: Amancio Hasty , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Coming out In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, jack wrote: > On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > While we are in the topic of advertising FreeBSD, > > http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/ > > Topic: Could You get Fired for Chosing Linux > > > > Feel to "Fire" at Berst it looks like he honestly is begging for it . > > > > It is time to take this show on the road 8) > > That guy's a total idiot. IIRC, he once touted the wonders of > NetMedic. In today's article he recommends dumping your ISP if > you have trouble loading web pages, yeah 404 errors are always on > the requesting side, and if your email isn't delivered within > five minutes. /Every/ complaint of slow delivery I have > investigated has been because the other end refused the > connection (usually AOL, go figure) or it was delivered within > seconds but the other end, more often than not a national > provider or RBOC, took hours to make it available to their > customer. Don't worry, even the guys at Ziff Davis that I was talking to yesterday think he is an... erm... clueless moron. Will be interesting to see if ZD's (erm... Softbank's) public share offering will change how they do things. Probably not, since it is already so easy to corrupt journalists. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message