From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 16 11:23:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA02312 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 11:23:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.visint.co.uk (wakko.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA02272 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:23:29 GMT (envelope-from steve@visint.co.uk) Received: from dylan (dylan.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.180]) by mail.visint.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA20044; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:23:17 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 19:24:41 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome X-Sender: steve@dylan To: "Matthew D. Fuller" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I withdraw the fraggin question. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > When I made a suggestion, based on some experiences I've had in the past, > I didn't realize the flames and personal attacks that I'd be subjected to. Given all the recent stuff about how to increase the FreeBSD user base It is worrying. It seems to me that some people probably forget that the mailing lists and news groups are probably the front-line new user helpdesk. If you do go move to Linux you won't find things much better, but I won't be surprised that you do it. > I apologize for my outrageous suggestion that vi be moved onto the root > partition, and humbly beg forgiveness from the godlike beings whose anger > I have arroused by my stupidity. Yeah, there's a lot of people who know how you feel, don't take it personally, you'll get flamed for the most incredibly sensible suggestions by the Linux crowd as well as bad suggestions. I'm on the fence about where vi should be put, I hate the bloody editor! > Wonder if Linux is looking for any crazy, stupid ideas that might help > system functioning in some difficult cases... Dont' do it!, for your sake - although I'm sure it can't be as bad as I remember =) Steve Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342 WWW: http://dylan.visint.co.uk/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message