From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 13 9:33:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dualcpus.com (dualcpus.com [65.160.20.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE4CE37B43E for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:33:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgowdy@home.com) Received: (qmail 5011 invoked from network); 13 Apr 2001 16:33:21 -0000 Received: from server.sherline.net (HELO server2) (hasdf@216.120.87.3) by dualcpus.com with SMTP; 13 Apr 2001 16:33:21 -0000 Message-ID: <000f01c0c437$7410d740$035778d8@sherline.net> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "J. Seth Henry" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: Subject: Re: Pornography on Yahoo Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:33:20 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You know, I've seen at least 20 posts now spewing vitriol at the poor moron > who had the temerity to stand up for something she believes in. While I > agree, her post was seriously off-topic, and completely brain dead - BUT SO > WERE THE REPLIES!!! Come on folks, we have wasted (at least) 20x the > bandwidth the original poster did - so why don't we just let it go? Well, it sure seems to me like this thread ended yesterday. You're a little slow getting your mail or something because you just tacked on a reply on a dead thread, your reply stating that you wanted the thread to die. > Also, I would like to point out that we don't see this much vitriol when a > commercial spammer posts something. I find *that* easily as irritating and > offensive as a knuckleheaded soap-box post from a religious zealot. BTW, for > the atheists in the room, a recent court decision held that atheism is, in > fact, a form of religion. I, for one, find the atheists soap box just as > grinding and irritating as everyone else's soap box. That said, Who's preaching atheism ?! I'm preaching, leave-me-alone-ism. > why don't we > lay off the atheists, Christians, Quakers - and who knows who else - and get > back to the business of learning about FreeBSD? (if the offended parties > aren't atheists - my bad, but whatever you are, enough's enough...) Enough is enough, so why are you adding to this thread ? > As an aside, I would ask why this lady deserves more abuse than any other > spammer or huckster. Why don't we blast them all equally for wasting our > time? Just a thought... Who says we don't ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message