Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 01:36:59 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: One more: emulators/xzx Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980402013117.2099E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199804010442.WAA07985@zuhause.mn.org>
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On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Bruce Albrecht wrote:
> Maybe so, Jordan, but as someone who is regularly recognized as a
> spokesman for the FreeBSD core team, I consider it less than
> professional for you to use profanity when other phrases will do,
Context is everything. I'd like to think we're better than a
bunch of four-year-old Linux-ites who think it's soo cool to use
profanity. That said, there are times when profanity is, well,
proper. :)
[In short, I'm saying absolutely nothing in the above paragraph. :)
Suffice it to say, I suppose, that on -ports I would have
chosen a slightly more obfuscated and obscure way of saying the
same]
> On a related subject, I'm also annoyed with the way some rugrats camp
> in the #FreeBSD IRC channel and spend most of their time talking about
IRC is IRC is IRC
> I think it takes a lot of postive PR to undo the damage created with
> casual profanity used here and on IRC, especially when we're trying to
is IRC. You'll find it on #windows95 (or whatever), too; I'm
certain.
--
tIM...HOEk
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