From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 31 13:39:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from southwark.dsl.net (southwark.dsl.net [65.84.81.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8055937B405 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:39:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from dantooine.vindaloo.com (209-87-65-68.client.dsl.net [209.87.65.68]) by southwark.dsl.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 430AF18DBB7 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 16:31:46 -0500 (EST) Received: (from chris@localhost) by dantooine.vindaloo.com (8.11.4/8.11.6) id f9VKmjv04259; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:48:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:48:45 -0500 From: Christopher Sean Hilton To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: This list works poorly at best -- Was: Censorship... Message-ID: <20011031154845.B4016@dantooine.vindaloo.com> References: <51430008@toto.iv> <15328.7821.910344.11674@guru.mired.org> <20011031083135.B27498@xor.obsecurity.org> <15328.10690.181941.964290@guru.mired.org> <20011031124614.H3717@dantooine.vindaloo.com> <7zg07zef1q.07z@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <7zg07zef1q.07z@localhost.localdomain>; from swear@blarg.net on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:21:37PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:21:37PM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Bad advice. People should assume that a private reply was private > because the replier wanted it to be private. Forwarding it on to a > public forum is a nasty violation of privacy. I'm sure there are > exceptions and you could re-post generic info, etc, I suppose, but you > shouldn't try to read the replier's mind about it and at a minimum you > should remove any identifying info. > As I replied personally to Gary I agree with this. I would say however that if you come to this forum looking for an answer and you get one you really are should post of summary of how you fixed the problem for the common good. -- Chris Hilton chilton-at-vindaloo-dot-com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "All I was doing was trying to get home from work!" -- Rosa Parks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message