From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 7 9:36: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8460D14C16 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:35:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA00502; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:33:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA47102; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:33:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:33:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199910071633.JAA47102@vashon.polstra.com> To: darrylo@sr.hp.com Subject: Re: Developer assessment (was Re: A bike shed ...) In-Reply-To: <199910051542.IAA16737@mina.sr.hp.com> References: <199910051542.IAA16737@mina.sr.hp.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199910051542.IAA16737@mina.sr.hp.com>, Darryl Okahata wrote: > > There's the problem. While I agree with you about persistent, > annoying, and utterly clueless newbies, I don't agree with the apparent > sentiment (with which you may or may not agree) where all newbies (and > not just in -hackers) should be flamed and roasted. I've seen perfectly > innocent questions (asked once), from non-persistent/non-annoying > newbies, get flamed in -questions. Darryl is right, folks. Please either be nice or keep quiet. I swear I've seen more unjustified crabby answers in our mailing lists during the past month than at any other time during my involvement with the project. A few of you -- and you know who you are -- seem to make a point of writing something utterly rude every day. If you are so stressed out that you can't help it, then please just take a break from the lists entirely for a couple of weeks. You're not doing a thing to help our reputation. Remember, the _individual_ you are replying to is not personally responsible for the sum total of annoyances you have endured lately. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message