From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 4 9:31: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 025EC37B422 for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 09:31:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from pitt.edu ("port 1356"@[136.142.20.150]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K35ZLZJHF60103IH@mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu> for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 4 May 2001 12:30:58 EDT Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 12:15:17 -0400 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Subject: Re: Concern over ftp.freebsd.org To: Terry Lambert Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3AF2D595.E5FA8FF3@pitt.edu> Organization: University of Pittsburgh MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en,pdf,es-CO References: <200105040412.VAA20118@usr06.primenet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > ... > > Most people do not subscribe to chat. The most applicable > mailing list is probably the one with the largest subscribership... > I disagree ... what about those of us that are simply not interested in this stuff. It's so bothersome to just start deleting email...at least spam can be filtered. > > > As someone who uses FreeBSD in a business context, and has off > > > and on since 1993, it is alarming to go out and try to grab a > > > distribution, only to find out that it's not where you expected > > > it to be. > > > > Surely it's on the mirrors, yes? > > No, it's not. > Is CVS broken ?? People shouldn't complain so much for something that is provided for free... remember..the BSD license doesn't include "the right to ftp the software from my nearest repository". It was particularly ridiculous to see this Jesus Monroy "demanding" heads to roll. No way, please keep the clown in -chat. Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message