From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 29 20:12:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 148D2106566B for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 20:12:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: from mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB6D78FC14 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 20:12:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@telenix.org) Received: (qmail 21043 invoked from network); 29 May 2009 20:12:45 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (HELO april.telenix.org) (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 29 May 2009 20:12:45 -0000 Message-ID: <4A2041ED.4010003@telenix.org> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 16:13:33 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090121) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wojciech Puchar References: <200905281030.n4SAUXdA046386@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th><200905280847.12966.kirk@strauser.com><200905280904.44025.kirk@strauser.com><20090528183801.82b36bbb.freebsd@edvax.de> <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793EDE2@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793EDE6@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> <4A1EF742.7030606@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Manolis Kiagias , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Gary Gatten Subject: Re: What is this forum for? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 20:12:46 -0000 Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> I've been subscribed to this list for quite some time. I've tried to >> help where I know, Hey folks, all of you, could I please sugggest that this entire thread (under a variety of subject names) is an abuse of the lists? These topics should definitely occur, something like this has to happen ocaisonally, but it needs to go to FreeBSD-chat, where the list topics are very specifically allowed great latitude. The FreeBSD-Questions list is very obvioiusly to help folks, and not to debate list usage, or any of the varied purposes it's been pushed to recently. I'm not saying don't discuss it, I'm saying, if it's *not* FreeBSD tech support, then please take it to FreeBSD-Chat, where you folks all know it belongs. Some of the comments I've seen threatening silly things liek dropping FreeBSD itself for abuse of lists, shouldn't ask for censorship, but those kind of complaints actually should be complaints about where these things are going to. You can discuss *absolutely* anything you want on FreeBSD-chat, so why don't you take advantage of that? I myself will actively support anyone's privilege to say whatever they please, if you just use the correct list to do it.