From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 24 15: 1:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A691437B69B for ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:00:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f0ON1cl03362; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:01:38 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0av) with ESMTP id f0ON1TV03284; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:01:29 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: earth.wnm.net: alex owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:01:29 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Tim McMillen Cc: Geoff Kitching , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IRC In-Reply-To: <01012415353400.24525@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Tim McMillen wrote: > > What kind of a response is that? The guy offers help, and just > because he doesn't know there are already IRC servers, you send a > caustic, sarcastic reply. Fact: Major ircds are developed on FreeBSD. Fact: Major servers run on FreeBSD. Fact: There has already been an irc.freebsd.org. Fact: Everyone and/or their monkey can run ircd. Fact: Everyone and/or their monkey is running ircd. Fact: Ircd is usually run by the monkeys. Opinion: Anyone unaware of the above facts is very clearly not qualified to operate an irc daemon owned by the FreeBSD project. (There, I put it nicely this time.) If my attitude bothers you, please take it private, the list doesn't care to see another batch of flames. We can settle this like real monkeys, even if it means falling out of the tree... Cheers -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 System Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message