From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Nov 13 17:58:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from spammie.svbug.com (mg136-070.ricochet.net [204.179.136.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55EDE37B681 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:58:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from spammie.svbug.com (localhost.mozie.org [127.0.0.1]) by spammie.svbug.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA06322; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 18:00:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jessem@spammie.svbug.com) Message-Id: <200011140200.SAA06322@spammie.svbug.com> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 18:00:08 -0800 (PST) From: opentrax@email.com Reply-To: opentrax@email.com Subject: Re: accessing portal site To: lnb@FreeBSDsystems.COM Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 13 Nov, Lanny Baron wrote: > Hello Jessem, > >...[Trimmed].. > > I said no. As it works perfectly. So what am I doing? Trying to > promoteFreeBSD as the great OS it is. > > I guess to people like Mr. Lehey I am wrong in doing so. I still think I > am right. And sometimes those nice little super polite letters are looked > at by the people in the know, and then forgotten. > > That route was tried and went no where. Thats when I wrote the > "disgusting" one. It worked. I call it Victory. > I can argue with your results. And I'm not completely aware of your situation, neither an I aware of any of the steps you went throught. I'm sure there will be many people who are unaware of your effort, but will be helped directly by it. My notes were so that you might encounter less friction and work when trying to accomplish your tasks. Medociracy(sp?) and incompitance(sp?) are a normal part of our lives. We see these situations all the time. However, recently I've taken the tack to try to change people I'm directly in contact with, like the manage at Starbucks. Currently, this store does a great deal of busines, day and night. However, when this certain manager is on the entire business crawls. To say the least, this is frustrating to customers waiting in line. My goals is, now, is to make this manager change his ways. Make this starbucks more profitable. Make the customers happier. You may ask, What's in it for me? :-) Simple, if I can change this store and manager to be better for the community we all win. Personally, if I can accomplish this, it means that I have a good chance of running large organizations. In large organization, people rarely see their bosses; the guys that sign the checks. If I can influence some busines, without my direct involvement the skies the limit. In your case, I would consider setting my goals higher. Certainly, burning energy arguing with Mr. Lehey, et al. has it's benifits. However, I believe you can achieve better benifits by not arguing. More energy by not arguing, means more energy to do other things. Again, this is only a suggestion. best regards, Jessem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message