From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Nov 30 18:39:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from titan.cc.wwu.edu (titan.cc.wwu.edu [140.160.240.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C7D15A54 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 18:39:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cockrum@cc.wwu.edu) Received: from localhost by titan.cc.wwu.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA12883; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 18:39:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 18:39:10 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Allen Cockrum To: David Wolfskill Cc: ****@***.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You might want to know this! In-Reply-To: <199911301603.IAA18445@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, David Wolfskill wrote > >If you go to Hotbot and search your screen name any postings you have > >posted here at FreeBSD will show up. > > I'm not at all sure what is meant by "screen name," but that sounds like > a term that folks would associate with immature individuals on a BBS. > > Many of us, in some sense, may well warrant the term "newbies", but > there are certainly some of us who never got involved in BBSs... and > there are some of us who -- chronologically, at least -- aren't of an age > that one would reasonably associate with immaturity. After all, we all know only "immature individuals" and "malicious hackers" would ever use somthing as arcane as a BBS, or make use of a "screen name" or handle. And ceritanly only the immature would ever care about personal information being released on the internet, or computer security in general. I think that a UNIX system administrator such as yourself (as i'm sure you must be, since you put in your message footer) would certianly agree that anyone who uses a handle or screen name in a e-mail obviously has somthing to hide, and should be incarcerated for their actions immediately. Just a thought. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message