From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 21 00:18:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA06874 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:18:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA06868 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:18:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA23719; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:17:59 -0800 (PST) To: Dave Hayes cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Mar 1996 13:06:12 PST." <199603202106.NAA05989@kachina.jetcafe.org> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:17:59 -0800 Message-ID: <23717.827396279@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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