From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue May 2 9:33:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1873237B555 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 09:33:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5E2851C4D; Tue, 2 May 2000 12:33:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 12:33:51 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Alexander Langer Cc: Jeremiah Gowdy , Travis Cole , Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and IRC Message-ID: <20000502123351.V86725@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20000501183644.A75942@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <20000501221654.A20589@wcug.wwu.edu> <000f01bfb3f9$5db2f0e0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> <20000502000316.A24887@wcug.wwu.edu> <20000502094046.B2489@cichlids.cichlids.com> <002801bfb44a$9744a0a0$5a5d0418@vista1.sdca.home.com> <20000502173315.A6023@cichlids.cichlids.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000502173315.A6023@cichlids.cichlids.com>; from alex@big.endian.de on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 05:33:15PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 05:33:15PM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: > Yes, but someone has to point them to this resources, and kicking is > not the correct way. > > If they don't want to listen to you and still ask again, it might be > the time to kick them, but only then. (1) They expect that it is their God-given right to get help in #freebsd. (1a) Denying them that right gives them other rights including, but not limited to: evading bans by coming back under different hostnames, /msg flooding the ops/flooding the channel, Using DoS attacks on the ops, getting their friends to troll the channel. (2) I try to put #freebsdhelp and or the handbook/FAQ in my kick reason. (3) I often kick with the answer to the question/URL for more information. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect Computer Horizons Corp - CVM e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org Office: 800-252-2421 x128 / Cell: 248-761-7272 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message