From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed May 3 6:26:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from oxygen.che.ilstu.edu (oxygen.che.ilstu.edu [138.87.101.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A889737BC1C for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 06:25:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamie@bishopston.net) Received: from bishopston.net ([24.68.200.91]) by oxygen.che.ilstu.edu (MX V4.2 VAX) with SMTP; Wed, 03 May 2000 14:26:59 BST Received: (from jamie@localhost) by bishopston.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA09641; Wed, 3 May 2000 14:20:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ) Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 14:20:37 +0100 (BST) From: Jamie Jones Message-ID: <200005031320.OAA09641@bishopston.net> To: cysgod@carrel.org, jgowdy@home.com Subject: Re: Re: Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net, tcole@wcug.wwu.edu In-Reply-To: <001901bfb499$b4d95080$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jeremiah Gowdy" wrote: > Haven't you guys ever heard "Remember: It's only IRC" Very apt from the person in this thread posting the most passionately on the subject! As pointed out earlier, however clear things are mentioned in FAQ's, you'll always get some newbie who strays in, and in my experience, a FreeBSD newbie is generally a potential Linux user. Sure, the Linux IRC groups may be just as rude, and sure, no-one can tell you what to do with your IRC channel, but the name IS going to mislead some, whatever the FAQ says. Ignorant user ? Maybe. Should we care? It's only IRC. It's only a channel name. If you cared about FreeBSD advocacy, you'd rename your channel to something less misleading. No doubt, your reply will be "Why should we?". That's your perogative. However, in the scheme of things, it's simply not all that important, and this thread has just turned into a pointless (from an advocacy point of view) flamefest. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message