From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 17:56:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from manatee.mammalia.org (manatee.mammalia.org [216.231.50.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB6E137B424 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by manatee.mammalia.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ED97411CFEE; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:56:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:56:23 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20000831175623.A15915@mammalia.org> References: <20000830194924.3B2C03123@uno.bcn.net> <20000831195958.B54301@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000831195958.B54301@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 07:59:58PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG And Ben Smithurst spoke: > Jason C. Wells wrote: > > > Perhaps you have a cat on your box? Try typing 'cat' at the command prompt > > if you get a newline then type some characters and hit return. If cat > > mimicks what you just typed then you know you have a mean cat on your box. > > She is probably scaring the mouse. > > May I suggest that if you're not going to give a helpful answer, that > you don't give _any_ answer. Smart-ass comments like this don't do much > for FreeBSD's image. > > If there was a tiny part of your post which was in fact a serious > answer, I missed it completely, which is an indication that the original > poster may have too. > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D I personally thought it was kind of funny, and not in bad taste. Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message