> From: "Robin S. Socha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 13 May 2001 10:18:45 +0200
>
> * Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010512 20:57]:
> > Chris Garrigues writes:
>
> >> As it is, I consider unsubscribing several times a week (and it's
> >> not because of the newbies).
>
> > I send qmail list traffic into its own mailbox, and read it once a
> > day. It's kind of handy, because I can see the questions which don't
> > get answered, and sometimes I answer them if I feel so led.
>
...
> But it's much easier to whine and groan, Chris, instead of taking some
> action, isn't it? After all, your post was brought to us via softmail
> written by the same k3wl D00d3 who invented the Internet (no, not Al
> "Treehugger" Gore, but the Great Chairman Gill Bates himself), so it
> *has* to be okay, eh? Not.
[ Since you mentioned me by name, I guess i won't ignore your generally useful
message with a generally negative tone. ]
I have no idea what you mean by "softmail written by [Bill Gates]".
My post was written in exmh which is layered on top of mh running under Linux
and delivered using qmail via a firewall/mailrelay also running qmail to a
mailing list running ezmlm and qmail to you. If there was anything "written"
by Bill Gates, it's not on my end.
Clearly you didn't look at the headers of my original message, and in fact,
I'll assume you didn't even read it since you apparently decided for no good
reason that I must be a user of microsoft software.
Allow me to quote myself from the message that you ignored:
> I've been on this list now since late 1996 and in recent times, it's become
> almost intolerable with all the flamage. Somehow on other lists people manage
> to co-exist with newbies without having to extract a pound of flesh with every
> question. I suspect that if this list had been this rude in 1996, I would
> have stuck with sendmail.
Most likely you looked at the one sentence that Russell quoted and thought to
your self: "Hey! An opportunity to prove to some whinny little twit how much
smarter he'd be if he used the cool tools that I use."
It's exactly this attitude that I was referring to in the parenthetical comment
that Russell quoted. Can't we try to give the benefit of a doubt instead of
looking at every post as an opportunity to prove that we have bigger opensource
balls than the next guy?
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