From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 9:34:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EED837B416 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:34:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a062.otenet.gr [212.205.215.62]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2FHYXYY005936; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:34:34 +0200 (EET) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2FHYZo7011936; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:34:42 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2FGxiWo011669; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:59:44 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:59:44 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Be careful what you say Message-ID: <20020315165944.GE11203@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020315061215.GA1693@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020315061215.GA1693@raggedclown.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-03-15 07:12, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > I have just received a very abusive email from someone on this list. > ... > If it is being a nazi to explain to someone why the information was > wrong then I guess I deserve to be lumped in with Hitler. You know that this is not true. > I am writing to the list, just to say that if the risk a person runs > when giving advice, or explaining something to someone who appears not > to understand it, is that they will be called a Nazi then I shall not > bother anymore. This is a well known risk when posting to open forums. Another common risk is getting your address harvested by spammers, and your mailboxes flooded with advertisements for "ever lasting happiness", "money! money! money!" and all those funny things. Giving up on the list is not going to solve the problem though. You'll eventually post to some other open forum and be treated similarly. The fact that people without manners exist, is well, known. Let them taste the almighty power of your procmail rules :) If the thing continues, you should consider what David Greenman suggested. Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message