Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:48:45 +0100 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anthony Message-ID: <20050215134845.GJ54011@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050215125606.GA6205@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20050213152331.2B00E16A4D1@hub.freebsd.org> <F64CC038-7EEE-11D9-B357-000D93C7878E@illusionart.com> <1722947768.20050215023424@wanadoo.fr> <20050215065354.GA91679@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <4211A714.50807@open-networks.net> <20050215125606.GA6205@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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--+B+y8wtTXqdUj1xM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:56:06PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I think most of the time Anthony *does* know what he writes about He certainly know more about some subjects than I do, I will not dispute that. However in all these e-mails I've never seen him back off once on subjects that I *do* know, even when faced with overwhelming evidence that contradict his 'facts'. > Discussion will *never* silence such a person, nor will polite questions > do the trick. They feed on response. The only way we got rid of this > person was to *totally* ignore everything he wrote about. *Everything*! > It took quite a while before everybody understood this to be the way to > go. As long as people keep on responding, Anthony's will florish.. >=20 > As he once said (one of the things I agree about): a killfile is no > solution; it's the easy way out; a bit childish even ;-) It is a bit childish; that's why he currently is the *only* person whose mail goes directly to /dev/null. I had actually given him the benefit of the doubt; this is my second encounter with a person named 'Anthony Atkielski' on this list (given the name I presume it's the same one), and it's not pretty _for the second time_. Reasoning wouldn't work the first time, and I can certainly ignore a lot of e-mail that I get from him or others, but I do get a bit upset when a person simply misstates the facts and will not back down (IE better at standards support being just one of said facts). I agree that response is what keeps these threads alive, and I know that I'm contributing once again to the flames. However I'm still hoping that Anthony will stop writing e-mails and start writing code or documentation, or maybe triage bugs, or *anything* else that benefits the FreeBSD project more than bickering about logo's, other OS's, and desktops, and who 'is right' in one situation vs another. Actually *doing* things is pretty satisfying too, you know. In any case, this is my last public e-mail on the subject. --Stijn --=20 Beware of he who would deny you access to information. For in his heart he thinks himself your master. -- Sid Meier, "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri" --+B+y8wtTXqdUj1xM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCEf29Y3r/tLQmfWcRAudVAKCCP/j84ccBP0Ro9wfmcuEoVrFrlACeLPt5 0XT/lInqOwuSb1TCnqP50zQ= =9VAn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+B+y8wtTXqdUj1xM--
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