From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 17 21:11:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06992 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 21:11:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hwcn.org (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA06986 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 21:11:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hoek@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by hwcn.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA09313; Wed, 18 Mar 1998 00:07:27 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 00:07:27 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Justin A Kolodziej <4wg7kolodzie@vmsb.csd.mu.edu> cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emulated Quake2 a no-go In-Reply-To: <350F0672.6E0F2068@vms.csd.mu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Justin A Kolodziej wrote: > Had you just told me "we're working on that problem," or even "We don't > care about that particular problem, and if you have to run Quake 2, go > back to Linux," I wouldn't have a problem with that. But when you a. > avoid the question, b. point me to information that is not actually > relevant to my situation, and c. then try to get rid of me by pointing > me to the wrong group, that only confirms what I should have suspected Bah. You got Amancio's standard form-letter reply. Being verbose is not one of his faults and you seem to have interpreted his lack of verbosity as being intentionally curt and offensive. [you insisted on an enumerated list of faults] 1) You accuse him of avoiding the question only because you didn't get the answer you wanted. "avoiding" == "not responding at all" != "answering". 2) To my simple mind, information about running Quake is relevent to running Quake. Your complaint is not that the information wasn't relevent, but that it didn't tell you enough. The correct response would have been to ask more _questions_ on -multimedia. 3) Amancio was definitely not trying to get rid of you. My personal suspecion is that he was actually trying to recruit more participants for his own favourite mailing-list. From his oft-repeated referrals to said list, and from an idea of its main participants, I suspect it's one of the most helpful and responsive FreeBSD ones around. Your more appropriate apply would have been to thank him for pointing you to -multimedia. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message