Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 08:30:49 -0400 From: Bill Vermillion <bill@wjv.com> To: isp@freebsd.org, jhs@jhs.muc.de Cc: Bsdguru@aol.com, bv@wjv.com, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freeside Message-ID: <20010529083049.C6684@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <200105282257.f4SMvuc22835@jhs.muc.de>; from jhs@jhs.muc.de on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:57:56AM %2B0200 References: <9a.14dd3669.28412a1f@aol.com> <200105282257.f4SMvuc22835@jhs.muc.de>
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On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:57:56AM +0200, Julian Stacey Jhs@jhs.muc.de thus sprach: > Bsdguru@aol.com, > Criticising Bill Vermillion seems suspect: > Don't you know he's a helpful asset on isp@ ? (He helped me > among many others) Better that your postings be discouraged, > rather than his. I'm not easily discouraged after posting to Usenet newsgroups and mailing lists for Unix for the past 15 years. Thanks for the comment. As to your comments on gurus: The idea is that we all help each other. I know 3 or 4 whom I would call gurus' but they always deny that and point to someone else more knowledgable. One of those - years ago in SysV.3 - got so tired of the 'disappearing inodes' that plagued that release, that he finally disaseembled the vendor supplied kernel, and found the bug that those with the source code had been unable to find for 2 years. Then he built a binary patch and put on the 'net. To me, his is a guru, but he denies that he is. > We're not paid to help. Many read in their own time, not employer's time. A > suspect fake Guru can attract more derision & less free help than a real name. > > Julian > - > Julian Stacey Unix Consultant - Munich Germany http://bim.bsn.com/~jhs/ > Ihr Rauchen => mein allergischer Kopfschmerz ! Kau/Schnupftabak probieren ! > Like Linux ? Then also look at FreeBSD with its 5000+ packages ! > -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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