From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 13 14:52:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 687A414CEE for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 14:52:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA97328; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:20:41 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:20:41 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" , Stephen McKay , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When they came for Brett Message-ID: <19990913222041.A96444@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990912001417.A13908@wcug.wwu.edu> <199909120827.SAA20008@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> <19990912144453.C227@whizkidtech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Dag-Erling Smorgrav on Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 02:00:09PM +0200 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 02:00:09PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "G. Adam Stanislav" writes: > > I am opposed to banning Brett from our mail lists, as that would set a > > dangerous precedent. > > There already is a precedent: Jesus Monroy. You'll be pleased to know that some of the changes I've made to the FAQ and Handbook (or changes that I've folded in as part of submissions people have asked me to review) have been the direct result of comments made on -doc by Jesus M. So (a) he certainly hasn't been banned from all the lists, and (b) if he had been, we'd have lost commentary that's been instrumental in improving part of FreeBSD. N -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message