From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 4 11:21:23 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 11:21:19 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from math.missouri.edu (math.missouri.edu [128.206.49.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6366737B401 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 11:21:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from math.missouri.edu (cauchy.math.missouri.edu [128.206.49.166]) by math.missouri.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA11389; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:19:43 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Sender: stephen@math.missouri.edu Message-ID: <3A2BEE31.F2338829@math.missouri.edu> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 13:19:13 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Organization: University of Missouri X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Malone Cc: Sassinak , "O. Hartmann" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: (OT) Re: NSFBUFS in kernel config References: <5.0.1.4.1.20001204135928.009f44a0@204.211.2.201> <20001204190650.A27319@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Malone wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:00:15PM -0500, Sassinak wrote: > > At 11:23 PM 12/3/00 +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > > >Dear Sirs. > > > > *I* am NOT a Sir. > > I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. > > I'm sure it's just someone, who's first language isn't English, > trying to be polite. Politeness is valuable in this world. > Yes, in certain parts of America people often address other people (especially strangers) at Sir or Ma'am. As an Englishman living in Missouri, I have even adopted it myself. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message