From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 10 10:59:22 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 8127937B419 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:59:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FCE0BD7A; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:59:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA16104; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:59:16 -0800 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBAIwbe24972; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:58:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: Konstantinos Konstantinidis Cc: Nils Holland , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best service on earth! References: <20011210123010.A259@tisys.org> <3C14A495.841A203D@duth.gr> <01121013063303.00345@stinky.akitanet.co.uk> <20011210173831.A1975@tisys.org> <3C14EE71.91ECF654@duth.gr> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 10 Dec 2001 10:58:36 -0800 In-Reply-To: <3C14EE71.91ECF654@duth.gr> Message-ID: Lines: 25 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 Konstantinos Konstantinidis writes: > I've been told by some people that this is dishonest, but frankly, I > don't think so. Oh, it's dishonest. The only question is whether you and Nils are dishonest enough to deserve the censure of others, which largely has to do with their own level of dishonesty. But "honest" is not a very mushy word like "moral" and some others where you get to draw your own threshold or use your own definition so that nearly everyone considers themselves to be "moral". Honest (snipped from my dict.) -- Not taking unfair advantage; truthful; trustworthy; equitable; fair; having integrity; guileless; open. Final snip -- "of good repute". Nils and you have damaged your repute to some extent. Not that it matters much, since your readers are unlikely to have business dealings with you anyway. I think I'm just stating facts and not saying how badly or not-so-badly I view these dishonest dealings. Few people are guiltless and for many mail order pricing errors, correcting the problem would cost the seller more than the error, and costs the buyer at least his time, etc, etc, so justifications are often easy to make. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message