From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 12 12:24:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ED4516A4CE for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:24:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC3EA43D2D for ; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:24:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44A1E6123; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 06:24:38 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22811-05; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 06:24:36 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D7D56110; Sat, 12 Feb 2005 06:24:36 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <420DF590.1070003@makeworld.com> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 06:24:48 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050101) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: FreeBSD - Questions Subject: Re: My thoughts on the list as of late... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:24:39 -0000 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: *snip* > Good thoughts - now, I have to ask the obligatory "Is there a question > somewhere here" before someone else does. > > You do realize that without asking one, you are participating in the > non-question-based discussion you are trying to argue against, right? > > Ted > > > Perhaps the question I should have directly asked; Shouldn't the list stay on target? Stay focused on the meaning of the project? Be more concerned about getting help to the users really needing it? Stop arguing about petty things? But to answer your question Ted, I was hoping the question didn't need to be asked. Perhaps error on my part. -- Best regards, Chris If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented, it wasn't worth doing.