From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 22:16:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phxby.engr.usu.edu (phxby.engr.usu.edu [129.123.21.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0107237B41D for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:16:33 -0800 (PST) Received: by phxby.engr.usu.edu (Postfix, from userid 501) id 08CEBB087F; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:14:59 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:14:58 -0700 From: Irwan Hadi To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Be careful what you say Message-ID: <20020314231458.A19240@phxby.com> Mail-Followup-To: Cliff Sarginson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020315061215.GA1693@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020315061215.GA1693@raggedclown.net>; from csfbsd@raggedclown.net on Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 07:12:15AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 07:12:15AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > I have just received a very abusive email from someone on this list. > > I had chosen to explain to him in a way he did not like that he was > giving bad advice on a recent topic, and to explain why. > > This person decided to call me a nazi (plus a few other random insults > thrown in, triteness, condescending, omniscient pretensions etc..) > > If it is being a nazi to explain to someone why the information was > wrong then I guess I deserve to be lumped in with Hitler. > > I am writing to the list, just to say that if the risk a person runs > when giving advice, or explaining something to someone who appears not > to understand it, is that they will be called a Nazi then I shall not > bother anymore. > > Perhaps he should read his history books, I probably know a little bit > more than he does about what Nazi's did and still do. What you should do is to send a complaint to his ISP at abuse@his.isp. If he is the USA, then most of the time, his ISP either will give him a warning, or revoke his account. BTW, hotmail is the easiest to complaint ;) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message