From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 16 0:32:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.auckland.ac.nz (mailhost.auckland.ac.nz [130.216.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1988F37B42C for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 00:32:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walker@gromit.ele.auckland.ac.nz) Received: from gromit.ele.auckland.ac.nz (IDENT:postfix@gromit.ele.auckland.ac.nz [130.216.216.23] (may be forged)) by mailhost.auckland.ac.nz (8.9.2/8.9.2/8.9.2-ua) with ESMTP id TAA18129; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:32:17 +1200 (NZST) Received: by gromit.ele.auckland.ac.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id 1D8533EF4; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:32:17 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:32:17 +1200 From: Jamie Walker To: Dan Langille Cc: Jamie Walker , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Just an observation - MUA's seen in the lists Message-ID: <20010416193216.A31543@auckland.ac.nz> References: <200104140000.RAA20921@usr02.primenet.com>; <20010416115528.B29831@auckland.ac.nz> <200104160645.f3G6jYe35568@ns1.unixathome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200104160645.f3G6jYe35568@ns1.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:45:32AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:45:32AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > That's simply not true. There may be some people who "have a hatred > of anything Linux." but I've never met one. If you look around, I think > you'll find that any serious advocates neither condemn or exhode hatred > towards any other operating systems. Of course there are the "Linux > Sucks"-kiddies, but they and their ilk exist within any community. They > are by no means representative of the community. Indeed not, but I personally tire of the way many in the community feel the need to measure themselves against Linux. I'm a Linux user as well as a FreeBSD user, and if I want to read about Linux there are any number of Linux mailing lists I can read. I don't need to see the regular references on pretty much most of the mailing lists hosted by freebsd.org. To my mind, -advocacy is a good place for comparisons, and the other legitimate reason for posting to other lists is for questions like "In Linux, I do XXX. How can I do the same in FreeBSD?" The IRC channels are far worse; this is why I tend not to join them any more. -- Fone: +64-9-373-7599 x4679 Room: 2.315, E&EE Dept, School of Engineering Work: jj.walker@auckland.ac.nz Home: jamiew@clear.net.nz ICQ: 5632563 or shout loudly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message