From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 3 9:50: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (flutter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1440F37B66C for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 09:50:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e93GmeN49244; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 18:48:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Brett Glass Cc: Wes Peters , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: politeness In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Oct 2000 10:37:58 MDT." <4.3.2.7.2.20001003103503.04c68240@localhost> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 18:48:40 +0200 Message-ID: <49242.970591720@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <4.3.2.7.2.20001003103503.04c68240@localhost>, Brett Glass writes: >At 03:53 AM 10/3/2000, Wes Peters wrote: > >>> Everyone has a right to write to the list and share his thoughts. >> >>No, the list has a charter. This is a republic, not a democracy. > >Does that mean that to get something posted to the list, I need to >contact my representative, who doesn't respond to me because >I'm not a member of his political party? Or has a staffer send me >back a boilerplate form letter and then does what his large >corporate contributors want? ;-) In your particular case: If you want to avoid being banned and filtered: Yes, it means that. In all my time in core, nobody even closely rivals your uncontested number one ranking as the person most people want banned & filtered from our lists. Depending on your luck, or lack of it, the core team may finally have had it with freedom, liberty and equality in your particular case, if you don't learn to control your emails style and quantity pretty damn fast. Doesn't the fact that your are universally more unpopular than anybody else with the FreeBSD developers trigger any kind of thought process in you ? Doesn't it make just a tiny little bit of doubt rear its ugly head, questioning your approach when you communicate on our lists ? I would have hoped so... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message