From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed May 3 14:26:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw02.execpc.com (mailgw02.execpc.com [169.207.3.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 047FD37BE89 for <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 3 May 2000 14:26:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fpawlak@execpc.com) Received: from Pfpawlak.execpc.com (narn-2-95.mdm.mke.execpc.com [169.207.134.223]) by mailgw02.execpc.com (8.9.1) id QAA26136; Wed, 3 May 2000 16:25:46 -0500 Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000503161756.00a70100@mail.execpc.com> X-Sender: fpawlak@mail.execpc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 16:22:01 -0500 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> From: Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <22488.957380244@localhost> References: <Your message of "Wed, 03 May 2000 22:10:43 +0530." <20000503221042.A550@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan is correct. Will you folks please give this issue a rest. It is far from relevant to advocacy. BTW. Jordan, you are much too intelligent or busy to engage in this. Or at least you should be. Although I do know how much you enjoy a good fight. Regards, Frank At 11:57 AM 5/3/2000 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >It may be that only the "heavy hitters" in this thread see it for the >senseless waste of time that it is, I don't know. I do know that >discussing IRC on the freebsd-advocacy list is never going to change >the behavior of anyone on IRC or make *ANY* substantive difference so >why keep on beating this dead horse? It's dead, Jim! > >You got your amended FAQ entry but evidently this wasn't enough to >keep you and Mr. Zaccariello from harping on about it. You want the >channel renamed? Fine, figure out how to force channel renaming on >IRC. You want everyone involved on such channels to be kinder, >gentler, thousand points of light George Bush fans? Fine, figure out >how to engineer the IRC people with neurolinguistic programming >techniques or something - perhaps you could write a set of 'bots which >spit special mind-altering phrases like "gosh, I feeling helpful" or >"Get out and vote for George W Bush!" into the channel every 15 >minutes. Knock yourselves out, but for goddsake stop whining about it >here in -advocacy and stop trying to widen it into some sort of "Why >FreeBSD-core hates newbies" polemic. > >This isn't about newbies or the project's attitute towards them and it >never will be for as long as the topic of discussion involves IRC. If >you genuinely want to talk about THAT then let's discuss how to make >the freebsd-questions list a better place or how to improve the web >pages. Stop trying to drag everyone here into the EFNET brush wars >under the pretense of somehow trying to advance the cause of advocacy! > >- Jordan > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message