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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:17:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@nwlink.com>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000831134207.5950A-100000@utah>
In-Reply-To: <20000831195958.B54301@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>

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On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote:

> May I suggest that if you're not going to give a helpful answer, that
> you don't give _any_ answer.  Smart-ass comments like this don't do much
> for FreeBSD's image.

If you look a little closer, you will see a lone smiley face on a line all
by itself.  Smiley's are often used to indicate humor in a medium where
body language is not available.

Have you seen the FAQ on "scratching noises" in memory?	
http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/misc.html

Surely that meets your definition of a smart ass comment. I think it's
funny.  That FAQ even goes so far is to tell the user to 'fdisk /mbr' for
crying out loud.  That's not funny! (but it is)

To see just how funny it is do this search.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/search.cgi?words=scratching+AND+memory+AND+banks&max=25&sort=score&source=freebsd-questions

(I actually forgot about my involvement on this one until I did the
search.)

Perhaps we should remove this portion of what are obviously not frequently
asked questions to protect FreeBSD's image.  Of course, IMHO a sense of
humor is present throughout man pages, web pages, and even source code so
the FAQ should stay.  

In reply, the original poster asked if I was on medication which I thought
was cute.  I just told him I just read lots of BOFH.  BOFH cracks me up!

And above all damnit... 

:)

Thank you,
Jason C. Wells




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