From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Feb 4 15:59:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15246 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:59:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15238 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:59:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id PAA24031; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:58:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id PAA12474; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:58:13 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id QAA27576; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:58:09 -0700 Message-ID: <36BA340E.BFE4E9B5@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 16:58:06 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Licia CC: "Daniel C. Sobral" , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a reseller program? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Licia wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Sue Blake wrote: > > > > > > Anyway, we need more topics like this that bring the women out of hiding :-) > > > > Well, so far, on all freebsd lists I subscribe to, -advocacy seems > > to be the one with the highest ratio of non-completely-lurking women > > around... I wonder why... (well, aside from the nasty flame fests > > that sometimes grace lists like -current) We try to be a bit more civilized here, though I for one can get a bit snippy when somebody starts throwing their weight around. That just doesn't cut it here, there's no need for childish antics. > I tend to lurk so much primarily because I've had enough extremely > unpleasant experiences regarding technical material in other forums (IRC for > example) to make me very leary of exposing myself to such behavior again. Ugh, IRC. I gave that up about 4 months after it started; it became painfully aware that it was just an extension of the Compu$serve "cb channels," with about the same level of maturity. And this was in 1994 -- I don't even want to imagine how much worse it is now. ;^) > The result is I tend not to make comments in the technical lists, unless it's > something I feel fairly sure I will not be maltreated over. You need an attitude adjustment - who's to say the opinion of the idiot at the other end of the socket connection has any validity AT ALL, let alone more validity than yours? Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the net -- FreeBSD-advocacy unleashes the "Licia-saurus!" ;^) -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message