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Date:      Sun, 28 Jan 1996 11:57:18 -0500
From:      dennis@etinc.com (dennis)
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dennis' Behavior (was Re: Multi-Port Async Cards)
Message-ID:  <199601281657.LAA09526@etinc.com>

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J. Wunsch writes....

>As Nate Williams wrote:
>> 
>> [ Dennis's post ]
>> 
>> > |>Flame bait ;-)
>> > |
>> > |only way to stir emotions in the passives.
>> 
>> May I respectfully ask the members of the core team to consider banning
>> Dennis from the mailing lists if he continues to posts like this.
>
>Dennis, do you have to tell us something to your defense?  (I rather
>think of a promise to stop this kind of postings in future, not of yet
>another argumentation war.)

Perhaps if you define the "kind" of posting that you're talking about? Ones that
Nate doesnt like? Should I clear all of my postings with him before forwarding
them to the list?

I think that the fact that FreeBSDs (poor) dial-in capabilities 
are perhaps the single obstacle to much wider use are an issue for discussion.
There are incredible inconsistancies in the "focus" of the core team, and if I'm
going to abandon support for BSDI for Freebsd I have to be certain that the 
situation is workable. There is much discussion on nonsense like magazine
articles and "exposure" for FreeBSD....yet there is weeks of discussion on 
writing drivers for ISDN when the regular modem stuff still doesnt work. It
makes
little sense to me. 

I made a "nice" post and no-one responded. Besides...you're free to not
respond...
the discussion on your reaction to my post is much more of a waste of time
than  
a discussion of whether or not (and why) something as important as multiport
hardware drivers are buggy.

I think some good came out of it as well...as there seems to be at least 2
people willing to 
make the driver better and tackle the non-disclosure. What positives do you
think will 
come out of your (and Nate's) discussion of "Dennis' behaviour"?

Dennis
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