From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 19 18:20:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from inconnu.isu.edu (inconnu.isu.edu [134.50.8.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE8337B400; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:20:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (galt@localhost) by inconnu.isu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA14970; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:19:58 -0700 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:19:58 -0700 (MST) From: John Galt Reply-To: To: Brett Glass Cc: Terry Lambert , Rahul Siddharthan , Jeremy Lea , Kris Kirby , Subject: Re: Why did NetBSD and FreeBSD diverge? In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010119111143.049ff8a0@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Brett Glass wrote: >At 10:52 AM 1/19/2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > >>Think "blanket party", as punishment for a members violation >>of the rules established by the controlling membership. > >I haven't encountered the term "blanket party" since I read >the book Don Quixote years ago. What is a good definition of It's an old .mil term: it means that when a platoon is tired of taking the punishment for one soldier's actions, the platoon eventually picks one night and has a half dozen people trap the victim under their blankets whille the rest of the platoon beats the tar out of said individual: see "full metal jacket" for a depiction of one. >it? (I'd assumed, from context, that it involved public >humiliation and/or suppression of an individual.) And what >rule (or rules) set by TPTB do you think I have violated? The unwritten rule of not pissing off people like me. >--Brett > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > -- Who is John Galt? Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message