From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Apr 3 14:32:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19707 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:32:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp6534.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.208.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19658 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:32:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by ppp1682.on.bellglobal.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA03066; Thu, 2 Apr 1998 01:36:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) X-Authentication-Warning: ppp1682.on.bellglobal.com: tim owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 01:36:59 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek X-Sender: tim@localhost Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Bruce Albrecht cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: One more: emulators/xzx In-Reply-To: <199804010442.WAA07985@zuhause.mn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message