From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 7 1:51:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8078152D1; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 01:51:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA28054; Tue, 7 Sep 1999 10:51:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Brad Knowles Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates in latest build? References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 07 Sep 1999 10:51:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: Brad Knowles's message of "Tue, 7 Sep 1999 09:28:10 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 26 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brad Knowles writes: > During the great Backbone Cabal wars [0] [1], I learned a couple of rules: > > 1. The first person to resort to negatively comparing the > other side to Hitler or the Nazis automatically loses the argument. > > 2. The first person to resort to using ad hominem attacks > (e.g., calling someone "infantile") automatically loses the argument. I'll add my own: 3. The first person to resort to rank or seniority to compensate for a lack of valid arguments automatically loses the argument. > Now, I'll make a deal with you. You tell me when you first > learned your version of these rules on the 'net -- if that was before > 1986 I'll be perfectly happy to switch to using your version of the > rules for any discussion(s) I may (or may not) have with you in the > future. Sound fair enough? Please hold the line while I fall off my chair and laugh my head off. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message