From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 3 13:34:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from newgold.net (Aphex.newgold.net [209.42.222.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8FEF737B505 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 13:34:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@newgold.net) Received: (qmail 29161 invoked by uid 1000); 3 May 2001 20:32:02 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 16:32:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: , , Subject: Re: [jkh@osd.bsdi.com: ANNOUNCE: Status update on ftp.freebsd.org A KA ftp.freesoftware.com] In-Reply-To: <20010503112139V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 3 May 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > From: jessem@livecam.com > Subject: Re: [jkh@osd.bsdi.com: ANNOUNCE: Status update on ftp.freebsd.org A KA ftp.freesoftware.com] > Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 11:03:35 -0700 (PDT) > > > At your request, I have moved this to hackers. > > You mean chat. Thank you. > > > Per your insistance, that this has nothing to do with hackers, is > > in my opinion Bull. > > Your opinion doesn't count for much in this case since it's clearly > not a -hackers issue. The freebsd-hackers mailing list, as is again > clearly outlined in the charter I pointed you to, is for technical > discussion. I simply cannot see how anyone with a reasonable command > of english could read into that a mandate for discussing the FTP site. > There's even a mailing list purely devoted to discussing that > infrastructure and it's called hubs@freebsd.org. > > > The pettyness that is rising *is* solely on your part. I have no > > agenda here other than that *that is good* for BSD and the businesses > > and jobs around BSD. > > What you evidently see as pettyness is my simply trying to keep the > mailing lists sane and comparatively focused on things other than > flamebait. > > You seem equally adept at generating flamebait and then attempting to > pass it off under the guise of "supporting the community" or "doing > what's good for BSD" and when people come back and call a spade a > spade, you evade the issue entirely by suggesting that identifying > flamebait as such constitutes a fear of your opinions or some other > such rubbish. Sorry, I don't buy it. > > > I urge you to stop the rhetoric NOW. I urge you to respond, as > > we would expect a BSDer to respond when dealing with issues > > of a professional nature. > > I have already responded, in just over 5000 words, to freebsd-announce > as a BSDer. The fact that you then chose to regard that as a cover-up > for some reason is your own doing and not something I can even > genuinely respond to since I think the only response which would > satisfy you at this point would be something to the effect of: > > OK Jesus, you're right, you caught us. This has all been a highly > orchestrated plot between Wind River and Microsoft, who are secretly > in collusion and actually the same company, to wipe out a promising > young operating system effort and acquire its developers for pennies > on the dollar. They figured that after they got us all turned out on > the streets and forced to sell our bodies and various internal organs > for food, they could acquire us cheap and get us to sign the waiver > form that allows the Visual Basic brain implants. Then we'd simply > turn into Borg-like zombies who wrote Visual Basic all day long > without complaint and nothing other than an occasionally mumbled > "ActiveX controls are good!" escaping from our lips. > > Ah Jesus, I quail before your mighty insight! Well put. VERY well put. Will you be my deity? -- [ Joseph Mallett ] [ xMach Core Team xMach: Proactively Unbloated Microkernel BSD ] [ Proud Open/Free/Net/4.4BSD User; C Programmer; Mad ] [ www.xMach.org ] Support my computer addiction buy something from http://www.jmallett.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message