From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Aug 23 18:56: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.chuckr.org (picnic.chuckr.org [216.254.96.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6A0637B424; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:55:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.chuckr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA98224; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:55:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.chuckr.org) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 21:55:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Darren Reed Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , root@ihack.net, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Competition In-Reply-To: <200008221256.WAA09990@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Darren Reed wrote: > > Whilst this has gone on long enough, I just want to make one comment here. > > The person to whom you're replying to in the email ago is allegedly being > "blocked" from sending email to freebsd.org and whilst that's fine, it is > hardly fitting to reply to such an email in such a way that only select > parts of it are made public - sort of like replying to a private email on > public lists. IMHO, either that email should be forwarded on or public > references (including this one) to it should be deleted. > > That such filtering of email exists is disgusting in many ways but is not > a topic I want to go into since no side is without blame. > > Darren Darren, if you're saying that you're unhappy that some folks who really want to disrupt the list with endless non-productivce haranguing are blocked, that's too bad. I think everyone should get the right to be heard, but heard ONCE. If they aren't agreed with, that's too damned bad, and if you can't accept that your ideas aren't the most popular, then you should learn to accept being blocked. This is a community communications channel, and can be very effectively blocked by a few loud screamers. I have personally been on the losing side of some battles; I hope I showed that I know how to give up in a timely manner. If you can't learn to give up, then you SHOULD be disallowed usage of this important venue. No channel that is run without at least some manner of self control will survive. State your opinions, then step back, it's someone else's turn. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.chuckr.org| electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message