From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Nov 30 19:32:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from dgriffin.org (dgriffin.org [205.147.189.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C9F14E06 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 1999 19:32:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dick@dgriffin.org) Received: from localhost (dick@localhost) by dgriffin.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA22335; Mon, 29 Nov 1999 22:38:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dick@dgriffin.org) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 22:38:05 -0500 (EST) From: Dick Griffin To: Mark Allen Cockrum Cc: David Wolfskill , ****@***.com, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You might want to know this! In-Reply-To: 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 Hark yea! Be this a flame? This this the spirit of the season? Rest yea merry gentlemen, good tidings to all. dg On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Mark Allen Cockrum wrote: >>> >>> >>> 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 >>> Dick Griffin At Home To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message