On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 17:14, J. Craig Woods wrote: > Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > > Yeah, I'm getting real sick of this M$ cloak-and-dagger > > assassin crap. > > Now we get this one. Now you all please pardon me if you > > think I'm being slightly paranoid; > > Hey Lyvim, > > Do you think Bad Billy could in fact be lurking here?
Not personally. But as Civileme has stated recently, somewhere in this very thread: "Well, remember that the list archive is public and now some advertising departments can be quoting excerpts from our archives... Pretty good ploy, I would say, and typical of the predatory attitude we _don't_ represent." So do I think that he could be employing peeps to mix things up in order to generate negative press at the grass roots level? Yes, I do think that's possible. That's why I've been watching the #mandrake channel in order to record what is happening there with 8.2 and what they say. At this time (and things may change) I have not spoken with anyone there that has had a substantially negative experience with 8.2. What fries my eggs is the people that talk about bugs and 8.2 problems without either having loaded it themselves, or bothering to actually check on what specifically any complaints might be. I'm pretty sure that from a sysadmin standpoint you've run into "seat-keyboard" space problems. Most of what I've seen have been problems of that nature, or configuration issues. So when somebody makes some kind of unsubstantiated statement like "8.2 has alot of bugs", it motivates me to get them to substantiate their claims. As you pointed out, this is after all the expert list. ;) And I havent got jaded. Yet.... :) > > I mean, here this guy that Dianne responded to has only > > sent three messages to the expert list since January 12; > > Hey careful about bringing the Countess Montessa into this fray. Royalty > is above that kind of thing.... My only response to that is that she has a "Royal" gift of gab when it comes to scaring off foggy, unsubstantiated or indefinite posts. I like that. Plus she doesn't seem at all shy when it comes to wading in to battle. > -- > J. Craig Woods > UNIX/NT Network/System Administration > > -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- > > ---- L8R, LX _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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