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Date:      Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:17:59 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Dave Hayes <dave@kachina.jetcafe.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk 
Message-ID:  <23717.827396279@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:06:12 PST." <199603202106.NAA05989@kachina.jetcafe.org> 

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> The free stuff is guaranteed not to be affected by marketing hype,
> the frail whims of a tyrant overlord CEO, or a big mass communications
> company's desire for profit.

Well, at least you're sympathetic to the basic ideals.  I suppose
there's still hope for you after all.. :-)

> Look, I'm sorry I got pissed.  Can I be human and get pissed off at
> losing a man month of work because sysinstall doesn't know the
> difference between its disks?

You're allowed to be human, that goes without saying.  You're also
allowed to be pissed.  But please also realize that we're *very*
overworked here and we're not exactly always inclined to be generous
when we feel that someone is abusing us - the paid abuse is bad
enough!

This is not about needing "validation of our altruism" as you say,
this is simply an admonition to "be nice!" if you want our help.
Everything else I said could easily be boiled down to that one simple
guideline.

					Jordan



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