Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 21:27:32 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> Cc: Justin A Kolodziej <4wg7kolodzie@vmsb.csd.mu.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Emulated Quake2 a no-go Message-ID: <199803180527.VAA08424@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Mar 1998 00:07:27 EST." <Pine.GSO.3.96.980317233813.28868B-100000@james.hwcn.org>
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Actually, I took a few moments while I was in the middle of intense hacking at work to post so you are right it was an automatic response and you are right I was thinking about recruiting Justin. Think about it an army of Justin lose in the world fighting against Microsoft. Sounds really good to me 8) To the original poster: "I keep forgetting if the glass is half full or is it half-empty" Cheers, Amancio > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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