Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:29:57 -0600 From: Vladimir Egorin <vladimir@math.uic.edu> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qmail (Was: Maintaining Access Control Lists ) Message-ID: <20020326142957.A3519@math.uic.edu> In-Reply-To: <p05101505b8c430e28572@[10.0.1.9]>; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:12:46AM %2B0100 References: <F61GQUEYvZmDvHbYxPo0000a6bd@hotmail.com> <20020323002608.B20699@rain.macguire.net> <3C9C84CF.2090300@flash.net> <20020323084327.A354@rain.macguire.net> <3C9DF87D.5050306@cream.org> <p05101505b8c430e28572@[10.0.1.9]>
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On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:12:46AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > I've been on IETF mailing lists with him, and his attitude is > always that he is always right (by definition) and everyone else is > always wrong (by definition). He insists on replying to each and > every mail message posted to the list, and constantly dredging up old > points that everyone else has agreed were dead a long, long, long > time ago. > > He will reply to messages that are not anywhere near remotely > related to his favourite topic, quote some random line that is least > unlike the straw-man position that he wants to destroy, and then go > off on a multi-page rant. > > He considers himself to be God's gift to programming, security, > Internet mail, DNS, cryptography, and anything else he cares to > decide to screw around with, and woe betide anyone who ever disagrees > with his world-view -- even if that world-view changes and you used > to be his most vocal supporter. > > > The problem is that he is generally totally fscking clueless (at > least on all the topics with which I am familiar), and his > whacked-out ideas of how things should be done are non-solutions to > non-problems, and he simply doesn't understand what the real problems > are. Brad, You are making a very general statement. Such statements are usually blind and unfair. I won't comment on Prof. Bernstein's abilities as a programmer or his character, but in the areas of his direct expertise (mathematics) he is very good. I am saying this as his former colleague and student. -- Vladimir To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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