Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 11:04:42 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie tip Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990515110442.0098a7c0@mail.bfm.org> In-Reply-To: <19990515103023.20653@welearn.com.au> References: <19990514184651.A16216@whizkidtech.net> <3.0.6.32.19990513101133.0095e3e0@mail.bfm.org> <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905131144250.13759-100000@hades.riverstyx.net> <19990513184609.A2831@whizkidtech.net> <373B9255.71FD0A10@seattleu.edu> <19990514184651.A16216@whizkidtech.net>
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At 10:30 15-05-1999 +1000, Sue Blake wrote: >Wow! See, newbies aren't useless know-nothings! :-) :-) >I should at this point issue a general reminder that there are risks in >using software whipped up by someone on a mailing list who you don't >know well, and that being submitted as a port doesn't mean it's been >checked and accepted. There have been people on this list in the past >who sounded very clever but were not worthy of trust, but I've put my >computer at the mercy of Adam's software many times without hesitation >or mishap, and I'm about to do it again. Hehe. Thanks for the vote of confidence. Like anyone else, I do make mistakes. Although I do try to correct them if I can (and if I can see them :). Come to think of it, that is precisely what happened here: I started this whole thread by suggesting the use of "clear;logout", where I made the mistake of not considering the scrollback buffer. Now I am trying to correct that mistake. :-) Adam --- Want to design your own web counter? Get GCL 2.10 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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