From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Dec 1 11:41:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 722F837B416 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 11:41:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09AABBD53; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 11:41:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA30856; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 11:41:25 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fB1JfhA98084; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 11:41:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "Mark Yeck" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) References: <3C08846C.3C13C71F@mindspring.com> <1542.208.216.126.134.1007217789.squirrel@y3k.shacknet.nu> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 01 Dec 2001 11:41:42 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1542.208.216.126.134.1007217789.squirrel@y3k.shacknet.nu> Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Mark Yeck" writes: > Terry wrote: > > Mark Yeck wrote: > >> > I disagree. All else being equal, a purpose-built system is always > >> > superior to a generalized system. > > Not a big deal, but I didnt actually write this, I responded to it. Also not a big deal, but it was an easy mistake to make since you had earlier snipped off the "Anthony wrote" line that should have been above the "Mark Yeck wrote" line. Fair enough of you to set us straight, tho. Plug -- Some mail readers, like Gnus in Xemacs, color quotes differently for each "voice" so parsing "wrote" and ">" lines is easier (if people don't mess up their quoting too badly). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message