From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 18 13:12: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA7A14E00 for ; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:12:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA81952; Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:09:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:09:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199904182009.NAA81952@apollo.backplane.com> To: Nate Williams Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa , Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language barrier (was Re: HEADS UP!!!! Important instructions for -current users! ) References: <199904171904.MAA75813@apollo.backplane.com> <88666.924388435@zippy.cdrom.com> <199904181923.NAA25095@mt.sri.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :>> that someone wil :> :> Let me just reinforce this statement. : :This is wonderful, but has this ever happened in our mailing lists? I :guess I don't remember anyone *ever* ridiculing or harassing someone for :not being fluent in the language. : :Nate Oh sure, it happens quite often. I've seen people 'talk down' to other people lots of time in responding to their questions. I see it most often when the person who posted the question has trouble with the language. Sometimes you can just see how much time it took the guy to ooze-out a single sentence and it really makes me angry when all they get for their trouble is a flip answer from some bozo. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message