From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 16:46:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31118106568B for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:46:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jon@radel.com) Received: from wave.radel.com (wave.radel.com [216.143.151.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF0B8FC1F for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2008 16:46:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jon@radel.com) Received: by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro PIPE 4.1.6) with PIPE id 8018817; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:46:13 -0400 Received: from [216.143.146.251] (account laura@radel.com HELO Macintosh.local) by wave.radel.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.6) with ESMTP id 8018813; Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:45:54 -0400 Message-ID: <48EE3540.5010407@radel.com> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:45:52 -0400 From: Jon Radel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chad Marshall References: <20081008223925.GB97321@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <2F5A85A9-3C1C-4328-9D4C-8722B3FDB2A1@ahm-inc.com> <28283d910810081851h7ab99b5y94b68f04b2a956e7@mail.gmail.com> <74E268D6-92EB-415F-8A28-86909F2F8B56@ahm-inc.com> <20081009143515.GA41174@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Radel.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Jon for more information X-Radel.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Mailer: CommuniGate Pro CLI mailer Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: uptime 2 years! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:46:14 -0000 Chad Marshall wrote: > > Here's what I said to the last guy who says my skin is thin, just leave > well enough alone and drop it please. Seems your skin is thin as well if > you can't handle a little back talk :) > > Well, I can always except critism. The problem is that I don't need rude > responses for something I thought would be something to share for your > organization, a success story of FreeBSD. Only for people to call me > lazy and say "Big Deal". If it's not a big deal, than say nothing. > Maybe you should put someone in charge of answering emails who aren't > cocky and smug, some responses were nice and at least supportive. > > I still believe in FreeBSD and it's a great OS. It's the nix I started > and learned with but I think your community is full of conceited, > pompous asses, the reason I don't like to associate with IT people. I'd > rather not give money to someone who has to insult me. If you go to a > restaurant and you get a rude waiter, what do you do? I don't go back or > give them a crap tip. > > I get better tack out of forums where I'm asking for help on coding > challenges than just simply offering a testimonial. > Dear Mr. Marshall: I'm terribly sorry that our representatives in charge of answering emails have been rude to you. I've just fired the lot of them, particularly as we can't afford to keep then on anymore seeing as how your generous donations are now in jeopardy. Moving forward I certainly hope that you evaluate your operating systems based on their technical merits and overall ROI, where I believe you will find that FreeBSD stands out, as it has for years, as a hard working operating system to support your Internet requirements at low cost. I will ask, however, that in the future you constrain your e-mail to freebsd-questions to either questions or answers to them, so as to not inflame our more excitable representatives once we hire a new, much reduced, batch of them. Thanks. --Jon Radel Who will now resign in shame