From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 22:39:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zapper.org (gso26-96-004.triad.rr.com [66.26.96.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58DB537B402 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:39:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from Zapper@localhost) by zapper.org (8.11.6/8.9.3) id g2F6aES19684; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:36:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from Zapper) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:36:13 -0500 From: Zapper To: Cliff Sarginson , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Be careful what you say Message-Id: <20020315013613.325e5cf3.Zapper@FoxChat.Net> In-Reply-To: <20020315061215.GA1693@raggedclown.net> References: <20020315061215.GA1693@raggedclown.net> Organization: FoxSurfer Group X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 I for one would like to thank André Parisis and Bob Giesen. Without their help I'd still be floundering around trying to figure out what was wrong. Please, don't give up on helping the people who appreciate it ... there are those of us out there that do. Respectfully, Mark Barthelemy PS. It sure is nice not to get *flamed* for asking a stupid question. On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 07:12:15 +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. > > By the way, you shouldn't take notice of anything I say, I just quote > from it all from manual pages and Introductory books on Computer > Science. Amazing I have got away with it as a paid job for all these > years. > > -- > Regards > Cliff Sarginson -- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Admin-FoxSurfer.Com FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message