Date: 01 Jan 2003 16:28:01 -0800 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter. Message-ID: <ngd6ng1jla.6ng@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20030101152046.D32360@papagena.rockefeller.edu> References: <20030101152046.D32360@papagena.rockefeller.edu>
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Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> writes: > Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > And it is in our time to name names. > > I would like to thank Gary Swearingem (that maybe an "n" and not an "m") > > for his persistence in refusing my attempts at apology. > > He alone, has reduced the FreeBSD community by one. > > I don't see why you're forming an opinion of the community by reading > -chat. It's quite unrepresentative, and the individual you named > isn't even a committer. You may as well form an opinion of the "linux > community" by reading slashdot at -1. Oh goody... Cliff makes a private matter public. Why? To shame me? (Of course, I feel sorry for being partially responsible if Cliff fulfills his claim, but I am comfortable in thinking that he deserves 99% of the blame.) Or does he mean to punish me by damaging my reputation among FreeBSD people by what people will wrongly assume in reading his brief non-explanation? (Unfortunately, I must now ask -chat readers who care to consider MY explanation, as if I can put this cat back in its bag. No doubt I'll wind up doing my own damage to my reputation in some minds, but I can't let this go by without comment.) He didn't form his opinion based on -chat; he just chose to take it public here. Most of our interactions started in -questions, with the most "interesting" stuff being kept off the lists. This current tantrum was triggered by my response to his four-word private message to which I privately replied (in essense) "No, I don't want to be friends; I don't like dealing with you most of the time, but I'll try to treat you like anybody else on the lists." I even praised him for wanting to be friends and said that there are plenty of others to befriend. But I didn't have to be clairvoyant to see an unhappy future in that course, and I think he should accept my kiss-off with more grace than he has. He had threatened before to quit and I tried to befriend him, talking about our common Dutch heritage and some other non-FreeBSD stuff, etc. Last New Year he claimed to have turned over a new leaf and I noticed the change in his postings for a while. Later we somehow got into talking a bit about politics and he just came out of the blue with some uncalled-for ugly anti-American rant to which I took great offense. I told him I that our friendship was over and have since ignored most of his posts and private messages. (Which might explain why I remember no apologies -- not that they'd change my opinion of Cliff. As "W" tried to say: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Sometimes I wander if he just likes to keep me wasting my time on such foolishness; if so, he's fooled me way too often.) Have a happy New Year and happy new year. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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