From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 26 18:07:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA01847 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 18:07:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line8.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.72]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA01837 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 18:07:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA00484; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 18:08:22 -0800 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 18:08:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Tony Kimball cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Linux In-Reply-To: <199603261657.KAA03906@compound> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Tony Kimball wrote: > > As usual, I'm wrong, and someone gets me pointed right. :-) > > Doug, I would like to specificly and publicly thank you for answering > in the first place. Your answers to questions are extremely > worthwhile, even when they are wrong, for several reasons. Among > these: When they are wrong, they express the reasonable expectations > intelligent newer users, and elicit the correct answer from more > experienced persons in cases where the original question might have > been beneath their interest threshold. Aww, shucks...:-) I do my best. I'm now on the current mailing list, and I will be running current in a bit, so I should be in better shape to let people know what's out there now and what's coming up. > In short, your efforts are appreciated even in those cases where > the original inquirer was not directly aided. I figure, if someone answers, that's a first step; if anything, someone can correct me. I'm pretty brave answering these questions with the relative amount of unix experience I have, which is about a year's worth, mostly beating on my personal box. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major