From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 6 13:59:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D91F816A4CE; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:59:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB6243D45; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 13:59:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 0990B530A; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:59:09 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 0CFE15308; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:59:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id E527B33C9A; Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:59:01 +0100 (CET) To: Rahul Siddharthan References: <20040106200524.GA4224@online.fr> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:59:01 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20040106200524.GA4224@online.fr> (Rahul Siddharthan's message of "Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:05:24 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.60 cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who's the troll? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 21:59:15 -0000 Rahul Siddharthan writes: > [is Bill Huey the troll?] Does anybody seriously believe this? AFAIK, this came up in a heated discussion on IRC, where someone accused him of being the troll and he replied with a sarcastic affirmative. Some people who had previously been witnesses to or victims of his abusive behaviour on the mailing lists were only to happy to take this at face value as it provided them with an excellent excuse to have him banned from the lists. For my part, while I don't particularly like Bill Huey, I have no reason to believe that he is the troll, and a couple of good reasons to believe that he isn't: Bill has never been afraid to post inflammatory material under his own name; there are good reasons to believe the troll's claim that he is a committer, while Bill is not; and the troll appeared long before the Java funding argument through which Bill alienated himself from the community. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no