Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 14:19:38 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mailing list and personal assaults Message-ID: <1325542778.15616.YahooMailNeo@web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4F01B81E.1070802@gmail.com> References: <CAGy-%2Bi-m7hUfrUPKaG6FAiv8cor6%2BWXUW-OwWA=uOAt0yDToag@mail.gmail.com> <201112302138.pBULcZfw076474@mail.r-bonomi.com> <CAO6-GAf=fjs4awwFVYPA2h-UNmA3Oa0-qj%2BPmCE8mi590N618w@mail.gmail.com> <4EFF19A7.2060800@ose.nl> <CAGy-%2Bi_SatydS_=a_pOVN6uwBfN2rU7kYWy78Ug=Nq=j3WrrAA@mail.gmail.com> <CAGy-%2Bi_QW78ezYv22YGUg3UCNa4xWdAnKfPMkQxGBfmmiDjK0g@mail.gmail.com> <4EFF94CA.3050304@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120101064247.3e8b0b56@scorpio> <4F00580D.1060208@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20120101091420.117aa8f3@scorpio> <20120102065526.GA16481@hemlock.hydra> <20120102083114.6c09d839@scorpio> <4F01B81E.1070802@gmail.com>
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=0A=A0=0A =0A=0A________________________________=0A=0AFrom: Johan Hendriks = <joh.hendriks@gmail.com>=0ATo: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> =0AS= ent: Monday, January 2, 2012 8:58 AM=0ASubject: mailing list and personal a= ssaults=0A=0A=0AI as a normal sys admin like to read the mailing lists, bec= ause it learned me a lot, and it still does.=0A=0ABut lately it looks like = more and more people get personal!=0AThe word ass, has passed this year eve= n more=A0 then i used my own.=0A=0AMaybe it is the time we live in, but ple= ase !=0AIf you are not agree with someone's statement or thoughts, ignore i= t or write your thoughts and be done with it.=0A=0Aregards=0AJohan=0A=0A___= ____________________________________________=0Afreebsd-questions@freebsd.or= g mailing list=0Ahttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question= s=0ATo unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org"=0A=0A=0AI agree.=A0A=A0mailing list like this should not=A0fall to th= e lowest common denominator. And I would like to add that while this commun= ity seems to be an exception,=A0far too often someone=A0wastes bandwidth an= d bytes by telling the person with=A0a question to RTFM. I=A0just=A0finishe= d a rather complicated project which took me days to resolve and several ti= mes when I asked=A0questions there was always some wise crack at hand who w= ould make the commen that "if you just RTFM" everything would be=A0fine. In= this case the manuals were lacking and most of the data was obselete or ir= relavent to the project I was conducting....kind of like FreeBSD documentat= ion.
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