From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 5 08:07:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA22838 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 08:07:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA22832 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 08:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.7.5/8.7.5) id JAA06905; Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:04:11 -0600 (MDT) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199609051504.JAA06905@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Theo filter To: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 09:04:10 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <57afv5xhft.fsf@elsevier.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Sep 5, 96 01:41:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul Richards said with respect to Theo: > Just ignoring him works far better, if a few of our own team were less > knee-jerk in responding to him then he'd have nothing to reply > to. Some people here keep feeding the fire for no good reason and that > includes sending him private mail. > > Your response above would fall in that category, what you propose would > escalate the problem not improve it. Good advice in general. Last year, I was publicly berated in the -questions lists for taking a couple of newbies to task for stridently demanding that they be helped regardless of the cost. I was rather displeased since I had done this via private e-mail, something the newbies either didn't recognize or lacked the net.manners to appreciate. Since then, I've implemented a "demanding newbie" filter in the most appropriate place; my own greyware. The entire Theo thread reminded me of nights when the dogs in my neighborhood won't shut up. It was amusing for the first 10 minutes, then I just shut it out. Amazing how well that 'd' key works, isn't it? Perhaps we should *all* apply it a little more, and reserve the 'f' (== flame) key for when it's really needed. Like e-mail with audio attachments of *me singing.* -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com