Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:22:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: wghicks@bellsouth.net (W Gerald Hicks) Cc: jesus.monroy@usa.net, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Re: [Re: Kernel config script ] ] Message-ID: <199906242222.PAA17292@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199906241220.IAA01589@bellsouth.net> from "W Gerald Hicks" at Jun 24, 99 08:20:18 am
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> > PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE do me a favor. I you are so > > inclined to continue this discussion, move it to > > the newsgroups, because I for one don't want a > > mile-a-garbage in everyone's mailbox on this > > point-less discussion. As I see it, you are a type #2 > > sysadmin, where new users must read the MOTD to get > > access.... beauty ahhh... > > The way I see it, you are a type 1 prick who reposts private emails > in a public forum. My stance has always been that I never say anything in private that I'm not willing to say in public. Not only does this keep my foot out of my mouth when I group vs. personnal reply, it keeps my foot out of my mouth if someone else, accidently or intentionally, posts my message to them, either excerpted as part of a reply or in total. A lot of people on these lists are anal about receiving two copies of a response message, and generally get their panties in an uproar over their own inability to attach "Reply-To:" headers to their messages, for whatever reason. It's quite common, especially after a "don't send me two copies, dammit!" message that people use hand-typed list addresses to soothe the other people with the twisted underwear. I believe that many people make the mistake of assuming an identity between the subject and the forum in which the subject was first observed, and type the list name on the "To:" line, manually, to unbunch the undergarments. Whether this happened in this case or not is really irrelevent, since it's a case of public-vs.-private face. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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