From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 11:46:55 2003 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 E9FD537B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 11:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop016.verizon.net (pop016pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 970A243FBF for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 11:46:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.60.214]) by pop016.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030602184653.ZWEC3199.pop016.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 13:46:53 -0500 Message-ID: <3EDB9BA3.8010901@mac.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 14:46:59 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200306021706.h52H6HA9016122@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200306021706.h52H6HA9016122@clunix.cl.msu.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.75.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop016.verizon.net from [129.44.60.214] at Mon, 2 Jun 2003 13:46:53 -0500 Subject: Re: List Administration, was: Re: your mail 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: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 18:46:56 -0000 Jerry McAllister wrote: [ ... ] >> I'm volunteering my time, network bandwidth, > > Whew. Neighbor, for choice I try to be polite, even in the face of sarcastic comments, false admiration, rhetorical games, and all of the other bullshit that some people exhibit. Most of the time, I leave it at that. However, I sometimes wonder whether people who are trying to be impolite to me have the background to understand what I consider a "real problem". Most people don't think of pain as being educational, I've learned. Most people have the choice of not thinking about pain at all, much less wonder whether they should think of pain as a friend or only an old, familiar acquaintance. Sad, hmm? I don't mock people for being ignorant, Jerry; I envy them. And while it may be true that I envy someone for their blind ignorance, I've rarely found it beneficial to explain this perspective to other people. Troy Settle pushed hard enough to get a taste of reality rather than courtesy from me. Troy apparently was intelligent enough to learn from the experience. Are you also capable of learning behavior, Jerry? -- -Chuck