On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:36:53PM -0800, Mark wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:42 AM, John R. Dennison <j...@gerdesas.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:33:59AM -0800, Mark wrote: > >> Let's talk about CentOS on this list, shall we? > > > > Presumably the OP is running firefox on CentOS. So... how it this > > not about CentOS? > > > > If that's true, why does he (always) cross-post every single question > to the Ubuntu users group (and I hear others, but I don't belong to > them)?
I was not aware of this; thank you for bringing it to my
attention.
> This is a fellow who routinely asks extremely general questions that
> so strongly resemble first-year student homework questions that I, and
> others, have taken the path of not helping him. I'm not here to do
> anyone's homework for them.
I concur with this 100000% I've consistently called people out
for mis-use of this mailing list; somehow this one slipped
through my notice and I owe the list an apology for that.
> Also, it has been my experience in the last four years of being on
> this list that most people who are genuinely interested in how
> something works *on CentOS* include such minimally relevant
> information as which CentOS they are running and why the question
> belongs here rather than in, say, a Firefox discussion group.
>
> Feel free to poke around in the archives and see if you can find even
> one CentOS query from S. Mathias.
I have after you pointed out he's a leech (my wording, not
yours) above and I was reminded of his past antics here. Again
my apologies to you and the list for mentally blocking him out
and not putting 2 and 2 together.
John
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