--- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hmm, I wonder if the lack of performance, or the
unwanted
> emails were more heavily weighted in the
decision?
>
> If there was any intelligent life on the list you
could
> counter what you call "Trolls" with solid technical
> arguments. This reminds me of the old bsdi
> list. A bunch of half-wits who are just happy
> to belong to something and have other half-wits
> to correspond with.
>
> FreeBSD used to have open discussions between
> users and developers and it used to be real
> good. Now it sucks and the developers are
> detached, off in their own little world. See
> a pattern?
>
> But with a user base from places like gnu-rox.org
> and makeworld.com, what do you expect I
> guess?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xavier Maillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Sent: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:43:35 +0100
> Subject: Re: A Riddle
>
> On 25 Mar 2005, Chris wrote:
>
>> If we're to prove a point to those that name
call, are rude,
>> troll, and all the other recent events, we must
do so on our
>> level. Allow them to spew what ever it is they
spew, and we
>> must simply either ignore it (the correct way
imho) Kill em
>> with kindness, OR, reply in such a fashion that
the user has no
>> idea what we're saying.
>>
>> Let's stop the erosion of this list now before it
goes too far.
>>
>> Over and out...
>
>
> I totally agree. This plus other things are the
reasons why I
> chose to switch to another OS.
Users that Insult people that offer help (good or
bad) says much about
that user.
The tactic at hand (at least with the user that top
posts) is to do
nothing more then what it is hoping to do - incite
anger *Sigh*
Oh well - most of us are certainly above that.
I don't agree. The spread of disinformation is
like allowing a cancer to go untreated. There
are a lot of people recommending a very poorly
implemented OS because of the propaganda
disseminated here. People's jobs and businesses
are at stake. People waste a tremendous amount
of time (me included) based on the ridiculously
inaccurate comments made by people on this
list.
And like with alchoholism, the first step is
admitting that you have a problem. If you're
going to keep RA-RAing this "effort", then
you are part of the problem. You can make
a person "Angry" by calling him a loser. But
if the shoe fits, it may very well need to
be said to get him off his butt.
As an aside, all of the major web mail providers
default to "top posting". Google (ever hear
of them?) only shows the top N lines of a post.
So if you bottom post, you don't see the message
you want to see
without having to make an effort. So when are
you troglodytes going to climb out of your
1994 hibernations and get with the times?
You may prefer one over the other, but its
hardly a capital offense to do otherwise. Most
of us have evolved out of our unix newsreaders.
Anyone with a brain is using web mail for
mailing lists these days: no more whining
about spam or "wasted bandwidth".
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